Exit Strategy

He ignored me, but he said to Pin-Lee, "A rogue unit would have left a trail of dead bodies across this station.”I said, “Maybe I wanted the trail to start here.”

[4.5] i think this is one of the first sci-fi books i've read where a robot is on a journey of personhood, but also doesn't strive to be human. in many ways, it, in fact, pities humans for being so mediocre - we're slow, we're unreliable, we're greedy. we're saddled with a plethora of unwieldy feelings like anxiety and fear. we hold a limitless capacity for hurt and hate. early days Murderbot would say the only thing we had going for us was tv serials.

but through demonstrations of the opposite in interactions with its found family crew, of loyalty and love and worry and care, we're reminded of the beauty in the madness. that our failings can be matched, if not eclipsed, by our successes. our boundless potential.

idealizing humankind has always been a sore point for me, because humans can suck.

majorly so.

but i guess we can be pretty darn awesome too.