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It’s funny, in a way, that an outfit which has been inactive for four years, the Underground Literary Alliance; many of whose remaining key members were destroyed during that period by economic circumstance, or by life; could still achieve today from the supposedly UNmonolithic established literary community widespread and unanimous hostility. Slur and smear against us continue to appear in esteemed publication after publication. Not one “reputable” writer will take our side—or acknowledge we have a side.

Instead of republishing an essay filled with distortions, with every available alleged crime of the ULA he could find, it’d have been more interesting if Tom Bissell had instead gone after the real story. If he’d presented the deeds done against the Underground Literary Alliance, beginning with the reams of hate mail we received from the moment of our founding; or bookstores pressured by the Eggers gang not to carry our zines; literary writers we were reaching out to pressured not to show at our events; publications (such as Punk Planet and Zine Guide in Chicago) pressured not to participate in or cover our events; fake letters and emails and web sites created in attempts to discredit us; endless anonymous attacks against the ULA in every public forum available, including Amazon; including this blog; ULA members pressured to break ranks and turn on us, and so on. A hurricane of hostility which continues to this day, though, for all intents and purposes, there remains no ULA. Only the name and the memory.

That story would be fascinating and revealing, but it’s a story which can’t come from me, only from those inside the established literary community, or inside McSweeney’s, and they’re not talking.

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Robots, can NEVER be humans, and here’s why:

There are a few things in life we that make us human. One of the major ones (I find myself under the impression and I consider this a major reason) is we reproduce.
There is a process to this, theoretically: we pick a mate, we have sex and at some point we have a baby. It is, primitively, a goal of the race. To make babies to the race continues.

ROBOTS: can never fall in love or reproduce. NO program I can fathom could make a robot reproduce. I really don’t think the robot could ever go through a cycle that is so essential to our existence that is so….I guess the word would be organic. If someone can tell me how a robot would reproduce sperm and form an egg and then make the to come together and form a baby for nine months, please tell me cause I honestly can’t figure one out.

I could possibly see the program being able to make the robot pick it’s life mate. Love is also something that is very essential to being a human, feels are part of what makes us human. It’s something we all feel. You can’t fake feeling love. But that would not be what the robot would feel. All love is really, is a chemical way for our brain to tell us that is the mate we want for the rest of our lives. Our brain is telling us (by making us feel love) we could procreate the species with that one. But would a robot feel the same thing? If they don’t, I don’t think they can be considered the equivalent to us. That just makes them another things that exists. I don’t think if a robot can’t feel the burning desire to talk to someone and be with someone for the rest of our lives, then that can’t make them human.

I know a rebuttal to this is going to be: then do you consider animals equivalent to us then? Because if you do, then you’re being racist.
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Robots deserve rights, but they should never be called a human (Pinocchio…. he’s just special)

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