Of Morgbots and Kraftwerk.

[Guest]

Morgbot is secretly one of my favorite terms used to describe the heaving fan boys n’ girls of Mopologetics. While some dimwits of this board’s past have strenuously objected to such a term, and I’m sure almost all the contributors to the Skinny-L would decry such a term as ‘bigoted’.

Of course, I must disagree. The suffix ‘bot’ of course comes from the term ‘robot’ which comes straight out of the aesthetic worship of industrial futurism, hence the Wardhouse-in a –box that spreads nearly identical LDS buildings across the United States. With a Patriarchal command structure that would give Max Weber a wet dream, the term Morgbot could not be better suited for such a culture of people.

As an example, BCSpace is a perfect example of a worker, a pristine example of robata. The term Robot actually has its roots in Soviet thinking and Slavic language, when such morbots as BCSpace clamor to see just how many earrings a young lady is wearing and if she following the guidance of the Prophet, he is just another potential cog that keeps the machine’s gears turning. Should we be surprised that both Molotov and Hinckley would be proud of BCSpace? This poster is not.

Of course, many a mouth breather will (e.g. Wade Englund) of course disagree, slamming a meaty fist down on the table and declaring “We have Agency!” Alas, he doesn’t. Of course, there is some historical ties with Blixa’s fascination with the Golem and Artificial Intelligence, but these things are merely there to simulate freedom, a robot (and by necessity, a Morbot) has the absence of freedom. The history of Church Correlation is the exact opposite of the secular robotics, instead of turning machines into humans; the LDS Church seeks to turn humans into machines.

For a brilliant example of what I speak, I beg you to listen to Kraftwerks’ brilliant song “The Robots”. In my estimation they are parroting pre-war Germany and it is almost like they seem to channel post Correlation Mormonism.

[_MrStakhanovite]

Kraftwerk also inserted the Russian phrase " Я твой слуга, я твой работник " (I'm you're slave, I'm you're worker) in that song, even with a focus on pre-war Germany, Soviet Futurism leaks it's way into the song.

[_EAllusion]

I occasionally dress as a character from that video because that's just how I roll.

[_Aristotle Smith]

To paraphrase Voltaire

without the duck of Vaucanson, you have nothing to remind you of the glory of Mopologetics.

le sauce

I can think of no better mascot for MD&D than the pooping duck.

[_Morley]

I don't think that bcspace would've been Weber's wet dream as much as he would have been Frederick Taylor's. Taylor was the king of the mechanistic/scientific management approach. He'd have adopted BC as a cherished and robotic acolyte.

[_Doctor Scratch]

It really is a shame, Mr. Stak, that Kraftwerk didn't have a song called, "The Spectral Wolf." They really missed out on an opportunity to explore post-adolescent angst, partially repressed misogyny, and personality-warping addiction to Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game.

[_Kishkumen]

I can think of no better mascot for MD&D than the pooping duck.

Well said.

[_zeezrom]

Fabulous post, Stak.

[_Blixa]

I would like to write a story about Joseph Smith creating a Golem to avenge the Missouri Mormons. Naturally, he goes West with Brigham Young and the rest is, well, history...

[_bcspace]

I and a whole lot of other people like this song better. By the OP's logic, anyone who plays the notes must needs be a robot. Might as well follow the notes that make beautiful music instead of that which does not satisfy. 2 Nephi 9:51