Daemons & angels

Do you know that at least one daemon lives in your house now - in the very moment you are reading this ? Yes - in fact they are several daemons with very nice exotic names, they all live in your modem - the Internet box, that is.

I first met the daemons when I started with Linux many years ago. In fact Linux was my ticket to the top of the world of IT business but that is another story altogether. So the daemons were small programs - scripts that would run constantly on a computer and would take care of some job. In fact daemons take care of all regular jobs on a Linux machine - your modem/router, android phone, computer, TV set, DVD recorder, camera, car computer, etc. I guess the same daemons are taking care of many of the functions in contemporary robots - starts to sound as an apocalyptic Sci-Fi meets the Bible story ;-).

So computer daemons are good daemons - they do jobs. We also have the viruses, which in fact are the bad daemons in IT. But since it becomes confusing to work that way - good daemons and bad daemons, the second were renamed to viruses. I can imagine the IT crowd differentiating between good and bad viruses and maybe worse - introducing an angels (good) and daemons (bad) system :-D.

So this whole stupid idea led me to another idea one day. Isn't it the same in our minds? Aren't the daemons the bad software - bad thoughts, and angels the good software - the good thoughts. Weren't the authors of the Bible just some kind of ancestors of today's IT crowd by any chance? Or is it vice versa - today's IT crowd is in fact maniacally into religion so they copied into the IT world some of the religious concepts ? :-)

Let's see. Psychology, the studies of human behavior suggest  that human behavior is programmable. And I guess they are right - education seems to help people change. I wonder what does the disappearance of the keyboard from modern mobile phones mean then - we admit we are illiterate so we go back to pictures ? :-D Nevermind, if we agree with what psychology and scientists have to say then we are one step closer to admitting that the idea of  bad programming and good programming patterns in our minds is not so insane. You remember what we called these patterns in Linux - daemons. Bad daemons and good daemons.

What are our thoughts then compared to the computer daemons ? It depends on us - the more a type of thoughts circles our mind, the more our "computer" is ready to deliver on these jobs. Now imagine that your mind is full of red shoes, purses, fast cars, new mobiles, beautiful tits, hard dicks. These are the so called Zombies in the IT language. Zombies are dead daemons in IT - they run but they cannot finalize any job - they do nothing, they just consume resources. For example a sports car will not fuck you - it is supposed to help you get laid but the car itself is a Zombie and the more you think about it the more .... What we do with Zombies is that we kill them in IT to free resources and use the computer for its purpose. So if we look back at life - what do we use our "computers" for ? What patterns are running along our circles - daemons, angels or zombies ? My personal opinion is that the exaggerated reliance on technology and institutions has turned us into a Zombie society - empty patterns are running our minds and bodies, which leads to empty minds, boring lives, etc. Be careful with the Angels, Daemons and Zombies you let running on your computer. Every computer has its limits - it can only take that much and after that it does not really work - it just repeats pointless tasks.