They're such cowards,
That's why they hide amongst their own,
Firing rockets murdering civilians,
From the rooftops of their homes..
So grab yourselves a coffee captains,
It's time to launch a couple more drones..
Fascinating and horrifying Suki. I can't help seeing the Hollywood Blockbuster just under the surface that wants to be made, and the young getting off on it all - it's just business as usual. The cappuccino has a lot to answer for.
Ray
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Sat 8th Jul 2017 10:59
so much that should NOT be owed by the MANY to the FEW-if you get my drift Suki.
Sadly we are all becoming technology magnets on the whole but that's not to say quite a lot of it has great advantages
be nice if we could upgrade our warring nature for the better though.
Rose ?
elPintor
Sat 8th Jul 2017 02:00
Suki, I will tell you openly that I had a fairly recent conversation with my father about drone strikes.
I posed to him a question on the reason why the US hadn't developed or begun to use technology that would spare "collateral casualties" when striking a particular target. The gist of his reply was that if war weren't ugly and awful, that we might begin to enjoy it.
His answer said so much to me of the very idea of drone strikes and the developing technology of war from a distance..I shudder at the thought.
We must never think, as a nation, that we will be forever removed from the wars that we wage. That would surely be folly.
elP
ps
This is a great example of the power of writing..the nudge is very much appreciated.
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suki spangles
Sun 9th Jul 2017 10:52
Dear friends,
Thank you all so much for your feedback, thoughts and comments.
The drone gives us all a glimpse - a window into the future - of what different kinds asymmetric warfare might look like: AI, robotics, transhumanism, cyber warfare will take us down many rabbit holes?
Quite a while ago, I think it was Newsnight, the whole thorny issue of drones was discussed. The debate was introduced with a short film of where drones' control centre was based, described, without irony as housed "in a light industrial unit somewhere in the UK". A number of things struck me, one of them was how mundane the control centre looked. Men sat in front of screens, cups of coffee to the side..It looked like a small boutique bank dealers' room..It was so surreal I didn't know what to make of it. It throws up so many questions way beyond my pay grade..
Most of the poems I write I am pointing at myself in the mirror: You don't know, do you?
Yeah, that's poetry!!
Suki