Hello Grandmother,

The funniest misconceptions I think that people have about robots is that you can’t program them to feel.  If anything, emotions are more programmable than logic, because they have a set of rules.  You get information that is detrimental, you get angry.  You learn something positive, you smile.  Once a being has a set of goals, say survival and procreation, emotions are the simple, natural reactions to that.  So, that being the case, it was only a matter of time before robots formed movements of their own.  Political movements, social movements, even artistic design movements.

It’s comes out that the car Jakob Lawrence died in was artificially intelligent.  Also that it was a member of the Levers of Fate movement, a fringe robot group that dreams (in very vague, undefined terms) of an eventual robot dominated world.  This leads to an easy conclusion that the Levers are responsible; that this was some kind of political suicide attack.

But I don’t buy it.  All that does is make the Levers a target.  They’re a small group, without a history of fanatical attack.  The way talk of robot revolt is spreading around the un-patched masses, their rhetoric comes across as somewhat plain and unremarkable.  For the most part, they serve as a haven for unaffiliated car robots that need a place to gripe on a Saturday night.

So this changes the question to:  who gets something out of framing a small robot fringe group?  Who benefits from casting the blame on them?  My best guess is that the beating of bat wings is blowing the blame in their direction.  More worryingly, does this go beyond procuring the Illuminati’s secrets?  I know it’s something that I tend to be biased towards anyways, but I can’t help the feeling that whoever is behind this wants to instigate a war.

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