Machine (White Space #2) - Elizabeth Bear

 Machine (Elizabeth Bear)

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You get so used to hurting that when it goes away not being in pain doesn’t even feel normal, exactly. It feels like having superpowers. I had so much energy and everything was so easy all of a sudden. So weird to think that a lot of people have superpowers all the time and don’t even know it.

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Machine (Elizabeth Bear)

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“I don’t think of myself as very strongly gendered. And I could elect a genderless identity, or a mixed-gender identity, if I preferred.” Wouldn’t that be less work? “Oh, probably,” I admitted. “Sure. But I choose to inhabit this conceptual space. To stretch it to accommodate me, rather than allowing it to contract. Because once a conceptual space starts to shrink by squeezing people out of it, it has a tendency to accelerate, and shrink and shrink and shrink until it squeezes out more and more people.”

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Machine (Elizabeth Bear)

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“And here we are back to terrible people inconveniently not making terrible art.” Expecting art to present absolute answers or offer tidy moral certainties is expecting art to act like propaganda,

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Machine (Elizabeth Bear)

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We cannot isolate ourselves from systems, have no impact, change nothing as we pass. We alter the world by observing it. The best we can do is not pretend that we don’t belong to a system; it’s to accept that we do, and try to be fair about using it. To keep it from exploiting the weakest.

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Machine (Elizabeth Bear)

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Why are we born needing impossible things? Why is it that we all have things we need to live that simply do not exist in the universe? A purpose in life. Unconditional love? Our emotional needs met? Ha. What cruel asshole thought this shit up?