My “War Crimes” now in Panoply

War Crimes is a flash piece which grew out of my research into clashing cultures.

 
The sad part is the story is based on real events of the 20th century.

A friend recently told me about England’s “grooming gangs” and, in my ignorance, I wondered if he meant roving beauticians doing random makeovers in the street.

What I’ve learned is that we, as a species, haven’t evolved.

Or, if we have, we need to stop the process because what we’re evolving into will probably mark our demise as a species.

4 thoughts on “My “War Crimes” now in Panoply”

  1. Powerful. With all of “fake” videos made by AI, makes you wonder how an AI would judge the sins of the father. Who would they use to speak to us and what would they say?

    1. Thanks for commenting!
      The holes (to me) are in “judge” and “of the father.”
      The first implies a programmed morality, yet to be a morality it must be reflective, self-aware, and capable of learning/understanding beyond it’s original training. The second implies a capability of recognizing long-term consequences of actions.
      I don’t know of any current AI systems capable of such. Doesn’t mean they don’t exist, only that I haven’t experience of them.
      What would they use to speak to us and what would they say? Ah, now we’re into Call-Response behaviors and The First Law of Semiotics. The former implies a shared/learned social structure, the second an understood sense of identity.
      Again, I don’t know of any current AI systems capable of such.

      1. Not yet, right? Call response is something I’ve seen the best instructors (at the CG training centers) and veteran teachers (at the elementary school I teach at) employ in class. It’s almost like programming and those I’ve seen do it with finesse make it look easy and it’s not. In teaching it’s like being in the “zone.” I didn’t really consider semiotics when reading this piece and the connection I made to AI. Interesting. We all have programming that helps/forces us to assign values (usually positive and negative) to everything we come into contact with. Working with you all those years helped me to slow down and is still paying dividends.

        1. Well…there was one such system, although it wasn’t AI in the sense people use the term currently.
          It’s easy with practice and training, and a willingness to be the “other” to learn their call-response behaviors. FWIW, I demonstrate Call-Response in the opening chapter of my latest novel, The Book of The Wounded Healers.
          Glad you’re still receiving dividends.
          Stay warm, well, and safe.