Scribbles and Horrors

Angie de Riva, Robot Maker, who partook in JayZer0’s The Realm of Yolmi oneshot and Idraluna’s Superadventure 6, wrote this paper, if you can call it that. It reads more like the ramblings of some Nut, which I suppose is exactly what Dr. de Riva is.

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On the Stupidity of the Biological Sciences

Liberated France
D-Day+18

There is no study more pointless and stupid than the study of living beings. What a waste of breath! I have heard people say–really say!–that life is worth investigating because we are living beings, and that therefore by learning about organic bodies we learn about ourselves. As if studying ourselves were some good in itself. Besides, are we not, more fundamentally, made of elements of matter? Would it not be more noble to study Electrical Impulses, Photochemical Processes, Hypodiagetic Materials to further the self-indulgent investigation into beings that we already are?

Anatomy, Botany, Medicine, Sociology, Politics, these are all sciences for children who have nothing better to do than whine. Much consternation has been flit about among the Army recently about the death of a mere rabbit. A RABBIT! So much worthwhile equipment on both sides was lost in the initial hours of the Normandy invasion, and people are sad about bunnies shot up in a field. The world of the past really has gone insane.

Organic bodies are in nearly every way less interesting and useful than mechanical ones. While there is nothing we can do about our own disposition, at the very least we can focus our efforts on building better robots, robots that can accomplish what flesh and blood cannot, what people cannot. Imagine battlefields filled with nothing but machinery! Just think of the efficiency of an automated bureaucracy! No corruption, no wasted energy, only robots, robots, robots.

The United States Army has so far been gracious enough to grant me space and (meager) funds to prosecute my work in France. I know this position is precarious, however. It will dry up at the end of the war. I must secure a more permanent home for my work.