Many years ago Russian poet Georgi Schengeli wrote a poem 'Blerio' about his childhood experience with the exhibition of the first aircraft (some of those were designed by the French designer Blerio). He wrote about the immense hope, the feeling of the new era coming, the joy of a child who believed in the better life ahead. He wrote that they were sure that a new life had come, that all the borders would be decommissioned, that passports and other papers would be discarded and there would be a new way of the people's brotherhood. That was in 1912. The poem 'Blerio' was written in 1942 and its last verse says:
-Now my hair is grey and I have seen a lot
And here I am on the roof under the bombs at night.
I had a similar feeling lately. It was when several of our media-species discussed the fact that Iraqi insurgents tapped into the computer systems of our killer-drones. I watched that discussion with horror. They talked and talked about the security of the military, the 'problem' of software on the Internet, showed the drone flying and NOBODY said even one word that it was a killing machine, an abomination designed by someone insane, someone who lost all his moral compass, someone, whose place is not even in Hell.
Those toothy species on the screen also lost their moral compass. Somewhere during the discussion (it lasted for an hour!) the running script below said that a drone had just killed 12 people in Pakistan. Did its job. And I imagined some farmer in Pakistan or some Afghani cattleman looking up into the clear sky and seeing a horrible killing machine, something out of this world approaching. He knows that he is defenseless, that he is at its mercy, that his life is no more valuable than the life of some animal hunted from the helicopter. And I can imagine how I would hate all those inhumane species who designed that monstrosity. I can imagine how he would hate us. Now I understand very clearly why they hate us. There is a good reason for it: we are a moronic evil.
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