Ein Englisch Essay mit dem Titel The Computer And I, was ich als Hausaufgabe für die Schule geschrieben habe. Ich finde es ganz amüsant, deswegen darf es natürlich in diesem Blog nicht fehlen. Es ist natürlich auf englisch geschrieben, allerdings bin ich kein native-speaker, also entschuldigt eventuelle Fehler.The Computer And I,
an essay by Paul-Anton GerlitzDoes a man still need a real relationship, with a real person? We live in times where a computer can predict a hurricane and the position of stars very accurate, very good and very reliable, so for what do we need a human for? You can always trust your computer in terms of weather, production of cars or calculating all prime numbers, and he’s always there for you, no matter what.
But in fact, who do you trust more, your computer or your wife, who you love and care about? I guess your wife, and that’s a problem, because humans may be wrong and may do it the wrong way. Also, you can’t trust your wife one hundred per cent, because you can’t look into her brains. So I really ask myself now: do you need persons when you have a state of the art, high end machine?
Let’s imagine a relationship with your computer, which works just as a real relationship in live. It starts when you stand up in the morning – who’s there for you to bring you the mail just in front of your face, opens it and throws it away with just a move of your finger, your wife or your computer? That’s not a tricky question, because you can rely on your wife not as much as on a computer. Your wife will be egoistic; she’ll open her mail first or even refuses to collect it for you because she’s too lazy. Something, a computer doesn’t know.
With a normal wife you’ll now go to work really pissed, you lost much time for actually picking up a newspaper (which a computer would fetch for you, your wife wont) and reading it (your computer is able to do that too, your wife will be like:
hell no, read your shitty political news yourself, I prefer watching the shopping channel, and you‘ll be more pissed than the time your house was washed away by the Flood and you hadn’t finished your ark yet because your wife was to lazy to actually paint some blueprints.). When you finally arrive at work you can’t even cheat on your wife with the new sexy secretary of yours, because honey will be pretty angry! That’s a shame, because your computer would be ok with it when you use another one. He won’t notice it at all and I guess he’ll even be happy because you actually plug in some USB-stick afterwards which might be pleasant and erotic in circuit life.
Talking to your computer must be fun too! Because he has no opinion, you are always right, no matter what you say. Sometimes he’ll be like: error, but in most cases your point and arguments will beat him. Just some tricky clicking and everything’s ok again.
But with a wife, you have to work much harder if you made her angry. Some touches with your fingers won’t be enough, you have to buy flowers or new cloth – and even then she might go to bed without performing some hard work on your fire hose.
In general terms, bedtime will be much more fun with a computer than with a wife. Imagine you wake up from a nightmare and you want something to hold on to, which entertains, makes you laugh and distracts you with some naughty scenery? Your wife will be pissed again; she has to stand up early in the morning and won’t care because baby had just a stupid dream. And in the morning she’ll find you in the kitchen, still crying while eating your cornflakes, and that’s her fault!
Not with a computer: your computer would be there for you, you can always wake him up, at any time, and do weird stuff, whenever you want. He’s always there for you and he’ll never complain about it.
What a computer does is also much more predictable than the actions of a woman. When you click a link, your computer will lead you where you want to go. But when you ask your wife if she’ll gives you a ride to the next porn store, she’ll properly refuses to do that. You have to argue, why you want to go there and in the end you’ll sit again at the kitchen table, crying in disillusionment.
In the end, everything points to replacing your woman with a machine. Less work, more fun. But clearly you have some second thoughts. What’s about human emotion, warmth, and a bunch of opposites to your partner, which make your relationship more interesting? It’s all missing with a machine. Also, no one will do your cooking when you have an armless Desktop-PC. So it all highlights having a wife might be good, too. And instead of “An Error Has Occurred!” isn’t it nice to hear a good old “Fuck You?!”