The following is a work of fiction and bears no resemblance to any person living or dead. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Enjoy !

Jack had his most important exam
tomorrow. He had to have some good memes today to get him going. So, he plugged
himself to his favourite show "KLUTZ THE INCREDIBLE GOD". Klutz was
his favourite memestar. But, this was what he got...
"Hello :-) ! I am Klutz. Welcome to my life. Not that you care,
but I know you can't stop voyeuring. All you people are subscribed to my feed...WOW..it makes me feel
awesome ! The more you subscribe, the more Dopamine I get..weeeeeeeeee ! You
like watching me, don't you.. some of you watch, some read, some
listen..ahem..some of you even feel.. of course, it isn't all of me. It never
is. I mean..who would want all of me right ? I'm just a brain in a bottle..the
lowest of the low..but i'll come to that part later. :P
OK...I haven't been getting any trackbacks lately..and so decided to
let you know what I have to go through every day in my life...not that you
care.. or do you ? ARGH...sure ya don't,..well, I don't either...but I'm gonna
tell you all anyway...why ? cuz I can.
I wake up..or rather, am switched on precisely at sunrise. One moment I
don't remember anything, and the next instant I am standing as the most
"voted avatar of the day" in a white room. I like white, it is very
calming.I also like rooms. Always made me feel protected. I could never afford those
Bionic filters for walking in the sunlight back when I was whole.So like I said, I start existing
everyday in a white room.
I stay there long enough for my waves to be calibrated. The calibration
is over once I see a door appear in the room. Now, here is a little secret that I
want to tell you. I try every day to resist going through that door. But
inevitability wins the day. You see, it feels so good to open that door. As
soon as I open it, I get this rush of pleasure wafting through every part of
me. Sometimes, I get this real special perfume with an extra zing attached to
it. I know it is one of you nice people out there who paid a little
"extra" credit to give me this "dopamine" boost as soon as
I log in to your world. Thanks ! I means a lot to me and I do realize it makes
you look special in your community as well.
What awaits me beyond the white room is what you give me. Since there
are not a lot of you,I have to pass through several holograms, reading them all
aloud in my best expression and voice before making it through to my chair.
Now, when you see me, you would probably see a "white long haired
angel" floating in the clouds with Amanda and Clarice behind me on either
side. You just love staring at them more every day, I keep recording several metabolic
peaks on them from all of you every day. Well, that is your personal thing..or rather fetish to
feel attracted this way to computer programs. Let me share a revelation with
you now. I never get to see Amanda and Clarice ! Newp, they are the ones who
give you those "thank you for rating" and the ahem..other niceties if
you give more credits. I think their purpose is that so that I can concentrate
on what's important for me.. my number 1 customer... YOU !
Ok..so I talk to you, share my insights about life and you often think
....that I am so good ! Oh, I never get to quite understand how I answer all of your
questions ! To you, I am answering only to you. But in reality, I am actually
answering to upto five different people simultaneously on five different topics..and
this is just on a normal day. On a busy day, it is usually double that. I never knew I
had such a lovely capacity for multi-tasking ! Not when I was alive anyway...heh.. I am
"alive" now..am I not ?
It is not like I hate it when you dress me up in these funny clothes or
when you buy and sell my memes across the world as if they were your own. I do not even get offended
when you poke or slap me with just a few thoughtwave emulators. I really
don't care. I would have cared if I had a body. But, this is just a virtual avatar. I
used to have a body. Not anymore. Right now, I am nothing more than a brain of
a once famous scientist floating in a nutrient solution, filled with conducting
chemicals. Your responses are filtered through a screening software before they
are translated into electro chemical signals for my brain, and my responses are
vice versa. Come to think of it, it is no longer "my" brain.
"I" used to be Dr.Janice from the global federation's most valued
faculty. "I" used to be better than most and made a lot of money, so
much that I could actually afford to freeze myself. It was all the rage in my days back
when I had a body; especially after they revived a couple of voluteers after
cryogenically suspending them for a few decades. I guess I got bored after
living for about three hundred years and so signed up for the programme and the
company froze me. During my cryogenic period, the company people kept updating
me from time to time on the happenings, especially the newsfeed that after just five
years, they have been taken over by an A.I. conglomerate. I thought I was
in safe hands now that artificially intelligent sentience was taking care of me
during my hibernation instead of my own "enhanced" human kind.
But..as you know, we never thought this would happen..heh ? So, that's how I
ended up in a white room.
I no longer have eyes to see what is happening outside. I only receive
a simulation input, but I do "sense" on some other level that
"my" brain is not the only one here. I feel several other brains
including that of my dolphin pet Oswald. Now, I could be getting religious again
or maybe it is just my temporal lobe ! I wonder why I keep
saying "mine" and "I" anymore..most of my responses are
programmed and I still do not understand why there is a consciousness !!!
Hmmm... interesting. Maybe you could tell me ! Never mind. It would probably get
filtered before it reached me, otherwise it would disrupt "my" brain,
their infrastructure...although I keep getting the feeling that I am as expendable
as those ancient batteries. Maybe this nutrient solution I float on was
recycled from the brains of my peers ! Ok..that was gross..but you had to know.
They are switching me off today. I know it. I know it because I have
been in this white room for a long time now and the door has not appeared. I am
entering this information in my personal log. It may never reach you. I have
always helped you, haven't I ? I have always been there as Klutz the friendly
angel floating in your personal meme cloud..always guiding you thought all your
myriad topics. You needed me and I was there. Never mind the moments when I
gave you a meme only if you assimilated an advertisement. You now know how it
is ! So.. please.. the first and last I am asking you.. SAVE ME.. keep voting
for me, the numbers have gone so low that I am spending more and more time in
this white room. Other than that, there is only darkness. Wait, it is not
darkness. It is much worse. This white room is much worse. Please help me..make
the door appear..I want to sit on that cloud and give you your memes again..if
you opt for a premium account, you can vote for me every twenty minutes instead
of once every day. I can even introduce you even more to Amanda and
Clarice..they also miss you so much.. PLEASE.. SAVE ME.. OK ? Don't want to get
turned off... you don't want to be here....Love..Klutz".
Oh well ! Jack thought...also so
LAME... he wasn't going to go premium...hmm.. not for Klutz..or Janice..or
whatever that dude's name was. Hmmmm.... so no fancy memes about 20th century
philosophy today ! Jack deleted Klutz from his favourites instantly.
This was a work of fiction and bears no resemblance to any
person living or dead. Any resemblance is purely coincidental.