Peace Be Unto Those Who Follow Right Guidance.
The fourth installment of the Terminator saga, Terminator Salvation, hits cinemas in the UK next week and I plan to see it as soon as possible. I've been following "the war against the machines" for around 20 years, however, it is only since I became aware of and committed to Islamic counter-Racism that I began to really appreciate what is going on in these films.
In Color Monitors: The Black face of Technology in America (2006), Martin Kevorkian argues that both the black characters in the Terminator films - specifically, Cyberdyne Systems computer genius, Miles Bennett Dyson, the person most directly responsible for the creation of SkyNet, an artificial intelligence defense network that becomes self-aware - and the terminators themselves should be viewed as machines. Black [=non-white] people are "the machines inside the machine". What is THE machine? Racism (White Supremacy).
Kevorkian also argues that machines and non-whites are interchangeable, that non-white people are natural machines and that machines, as the 'other' to human beings [=white people], and by an inversion of logic, are non-white.
As I have argued in an earlier article, Monitoring Color Monitors, Kevorkian's position is based on the assumption of white technophobia, an assumption that I consider to be problematic since it is only partially correct, a half-truth. Is the glass half-empty or half-full? Yes.
Although I think the Terminator films are interesting, especially for committed counter-Racists, I think attention is better focused elsewhere - more specifically, on developments in what is known as Transhumanism, Posthumanism and Extropianism.
In this connection, I should like to point readers to a documentary entitled The Age of Transitions (2008) produced by Aaron Franz.
It makes for important - rather, ESSENTIAL - viewing and features all the "usual suspects" associated with 'scientific' Racism (White Supremacy) = Scientism.
Watch it and then distribute it as far and wide as possible.
Peace
Uncle, I typed in "terminator 4 white supremacy" in google, and this is the first thing that came up. Pretty funny actually.