I believe most, if not all people, are in some ways, control freaks and look at themselves as gods. We, humans, have this thinking that we are superior among all beings inhabiting this earth or even the universe. We are so proud of our outstanding intellect and how we believe it has propelled us to the top of the animal hierarchy to the point that we believed and continue to believe that some perfect, absolute and almighty beings that embody our characteristics and form, somehow created the whole universe including us and that we will create everything else left to create in the future.
This kind of thinking, that we see ourselves as the sole superiors and owners of the whole universe, is best incarnated through the invention of the computer program wherein we can just input commands and orders. This allows us to finally and totally subdue something that we, not the superior and absolute beings, created. We finally have a loyal slave that doesn't complain or rise up and revolt. It does not need food nor water and performs actions that are a hundred-fold faster than a normal human being.
This wasn't the case when I was using Ubuntu's Terminal (Windows Command Prompt counterpart. I didn't feel anything like I'm superior or a god, nor did I feel that it was my slave. As my professor was giving us the directions to what we were to do on our computer science laboratory class, I felt that I was the enslaved one and I couldn't even complain. I didn't have a hard time really, but it was like the computer was the one asking me to input those commands instead of me being in charge. I was then recalling the time when I watched the Terminator movies and imagined the scenario of it really happening.
I almost peed my pants.
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