As I was reading the
introduction it was a word that stuck out to me. The word was
techno-scientific. Before I looked up the word techno-scientific I thought what
it means so I broke the word down in 2. So when I hear the word techno I think
it means something to do with mechanical things. Then when I hear the word
science I think of chemical, equations and medicine. After I thought of what it
ment I looked up the word. And when I looked up the term Techno-scientific it
gave me the term techno science, the meaning of the term techno science is
technological and social context of science
But as the short story "passengers" goes in my opinion is aliens are basically taking over the human body. Basically the aliens using them as their sex slave and leave whenever they please. Then when the aliens leave the humans body they leave the humans confused as to who or what they did. Some of you may disagree but the short story passengers remind me a LITTLE of the movie "Sybil" but instead of different personalities it’s just one sexual personality then when they get back into their rightful mind/body they don't know what happened.
As to the short story “Out Of All Them Bright Stars" it was more of a prejudice story against aliens. The blue alien in the story was just another customer in the store just minding his business trying to get served and the waiter Sally was actually kind and actually served him. But it wasn't such a nice welcoming when the boss saw him. Since he looks different the boss didn’t want her to serve him. That kind of relates to life back in the day also life now, how if someone looks a certain way or if they were a certain gender or etc. people don't want to help or serve them.
Do you see any other connections besides Sybil? Are there any tie-ins to modern life?
ReplyDeleteI didn't understand clearly how "Passengers" by Robert Silverberg related to Sybil because I never watched the show, read the book or watched the movie. So in that case, it would be helpful if you explained more why and how they are related for nincompoops like me.
ReplyDeleteI liked the assimilation you made between "Passengers" and Sybil because of the fact Sybil has "multiple personas" and those personas would posses her, and she would wake up from those possessions and have no idea what happened much like the aliens would posses humans in "Passenger".
ReplyDelete"Passengers" also reminded me of Multiple Personality Disorder/ Dissociative Identity Disorder! Besides the whole confusion and forgetfulness they experienced which is similar to what people with the disorder experience, the way the people avoided the ridden and the ridden having to stay quiet about their experiences like they were ashamed was also something that could connect the story to modern life and how society treats people with mental illnesses such as DID. Glad to see we thought alike!
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