January 21, 2005
#2 When Aliens Replace Friends and Relatives
Now, in my Second Address (delivered before the Committee for Determining Real People CDRP), I confront a deeper and even more serious consideration. We have to deal with those aliens who, it suddenly appears, have replaced certain close friends and relatives.
I say suddenly, but what is sudden is the realisation you have when, suddenly, after a long time of difficulty with a person, you realise this can’t actually be that person; this must be an alien version of that person, and one who is dedicated to the mission of mixing you up and possibly driving you crazy. This of course is potentially more devastating, this invasion of aliens right into one’s private circle, than the invasion of aliens at top levels of government or in places of no apparent consequence--as of yet, like school crossing guards and pizza delivery people, convenience store clerks or car mechanics . . .
And of course once this gets out that it has happened anywhere, that an old friend living in Vermont, say (this is what happened in my own case), or another older friend in Baltimore, drasticly, or one’s own sister, for God’s sake, has been replaced by an alien, who has set about to confound precisely them, set about to implant hostility and doubt in the other’s mind to corrupt him; once this gets out, the mere idea that this could be happening, everyone will start looking closely at their own friends and relatives and start to wonder about each of them.
Because friends and relatives are precisely not looked at so closely after a while, and are given the benefit of doubt, as we say, and great latitude; in fact they are allowed to do things that if someone you didn’t know did you wouldn’t want to even know that person. With this new possibility that they may actually not be the person they originally were at all, but have been replaced, at one point when you weren’t watching closely, which is all the time really in some cases; well just the idea is enough to cause chaos. In fact the idea of so unsettling that we may never get to know the actual story. This idea alone, even if untrue!, has the potential of ruining circles of friends, and whole families, intimate groups which have grown smaller over the years--and can’t afford have a whole person rubbed out!
In fact in life after a certain point one doesn’t really make new friends, at least one can’t make new old friends (obviously), and that is why the close scrutiny has let up, particularly in regards to friends living in Vermont, in my case, because I always felt guilty in their regards for having left them there, when I moved back to my hometown; since they originally relied upon me so much, for inspiration and guidance. But the point is, though the alien replacement has occurred and I am obligated to report this, I want to simultaneously observe that if there is a dramatic increase in the number of reported alien replacements, now, a good many of those may actually just be fear of an alien replacement. Which is why we have to have a technique for positive identification. We have to have a method people can use for determining whether their old friends and relatives are still themselves, or have been victims of a substitution. (For instance, in taking another look at my sister I decided she still was my sister, after all, and that was . . . sort of a relief.)
But if this can be established that this has happened, and a bonafide look alike has swept in, then of course one has to get busy, not only having to decide how to deal with the alien, but having to ask: what happened to the person?
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January 13, 2005
#1 The Difference Between Aliens and Real People
In my first Lecture, I would simply ask the question. How do you tell the aliens from the humans?
Well, I say, it can be done!
The aliens are flawed in a very specific way. They are perfectly programmed in every respect, but since they have no central being there are discrepancies between the various programs. Their various functions are not in harmony, so to speak, so that for instance if you look at their hands gestures when they are speaking, they are wrong, they don’t go together. This guy speaking publicly is using hand gestures appropriate to a preacher; but he is all off, these signals are just are not coordinated with what he is saying. They are rhythmically coordinated, yes, but metaphorically off.
This is because they are not spontaneous, as are the words from his mouth not spontaneous, as with real humans at least half of what we say and gesticulate is being made or reformed as we do it.
In fact many speakers get signals and vocabulary power, so to speak, precisely from the waving of their arms and the illustration, so to speak, of what they are saying as they go along. But this creative state of being, or this being always in a state of creative action, so to speak, is not the case with the aliens. They are essentially pretending, and have to pretend in every facet and then coordinate these facets.
It is difficult being an alien, that’s for sure; it is like being an actor, but without benefit of the memory of being a person and the whole storehouse of emotions to mimic on the spot and when needed in the portrayal the actor is making. In fact, it is so difficult being an alien, when you consider the actual and boundless difficulties, that we might wonder how they, the aliens, actually do it.
For there is no question these fellows are not human, or . . . maybe they are; maybe they are disintegrating humans. It might be possible to achieve this condition of apparent knowledge but discontinuity, or disharmony between facets of a normal complex functioning personality, if one started with a whole person and then subtracted from that. So that the hands and facial expressions of our speaker are in a lurch, so to speak, as soon as the guy goes to the podium and starts talking about the government’s plan on how to deal with the growing crisis. Or whatever the topic is supposed to be, being as I am so distracted by trying to figure out whether this is a real person, or an alien!
Actually, if you examine his facial expressions, and then examine his gesturing, and then listen to what he is saying, you will see that ALL THREE of these are running on separate platforms.
So! If you listen to these politically placed apparent aliens you can, I decide, determine that they are aliens by the observation that they are, first, stupid, and second, very organised. It is not possible for a group of stupid human beings to organise themselves into a unbreakable oath-taking group, without being discovered by other humans simply because they are on the lookout for idiot conspiracies and are smart enough to find them. But these stupid ones in fact well organised, and leave no trace of how they became that way; which proves they are aliens. Because human beings organise themselves according to like interests and goals; their team spirit and patriotism stems from this actual identity of purpose. Real people look out for each other because they are important to each other and the cause they share. But in the case of the aliens the team spirit is not a function of the team, so to speak, but has been programmed into each individual separately; they simply salute in the direction of . . . the podium, it has no reference.
This is hard indeed for people to believe, and even hard for me to express, but this is the distinction that allows you to understand how many aliens have managed to infiltrate the government, without actually having to meet with each other.
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