From people to machines: the dystopia of exen in our time

From people to machines: the dystopia of exen in our time

In a time when technology and artificial intelligence progress steadily, the question arises: we may be transformed into “exen”, similar to the dystopian figures from Sigismund Krschikhanowski's novel “The Club of Letters Murderer”? This book, which was created between 1925 and 1927, describes people who are emptied by their own self and instead exist as "ethical machines".

But what exactly are exen? According to the narrative, these are beings to which all individual psychological content has been withdrawn. This is done with the aim of homogenizing the psyche and subjecting humanity to a higher -level control. This idea may appear like an extremely exaggerated dystopia, but it raises fundamental questions about individual freedom and identity, which are also important in our modern world.

The influence of the digital age

In times when people are increasingly uniformed in their opinion formation due to digital platforms and social networks, the idea of a machine -made society no longer appears like a fictional grip for fiction. A friend recently shared his observations about the behavior of people in heated discussions. He noticed that many are hardly able to tolerate different opinions. Instead, a pattern of reactions that appear almost mechanical shows as if personal beliefs are no longer controlled themselves, but are specially specified.

The idea that we turn into a kind of "exen" is only reinforced by these observations. The idea that our decisions and opinions are no longer determined independently, but by external influences, is worrying. If people behave in such a way when the automatism of their reactions dominates thinking, the question is entitled: Where is human individuality and the awareness of their own self?

Krschikhanowski's dystopia goes on. The publicist Tummins warns in history that nobody is allowed to force a foreign life to a person because he is a free being. Nevertheless, even his will is subject to external control in the course of the narrative. The question arises in today's world whether we do not maneuver ourselves in a similar situation and give up our own humanity when we rely too much on external regulations.

The key question remains: What happens to our inner self when we begin to bend the influences and standards of an increasingly mechanized outside world? The words of Tummins, who asks every "still human" to look at the "mechanated" directly, are an urgent appeal to be aware of your own humanity. Only through reflection and the awareness of our own ego can we prevent us from transforming ourselves into existential dystopia.

These topics are becoming increasingly relevant in today's society, and the discussion about how technology and social dynamics shape our identity remains essential. We take the advice of history to keep our own place as a person as long as it is still possible. The struggle for the preservation of human identity is more current than ever and necessary in order not to slip into a future in which the individual is replaced by the machine.

For deeper insights into this topic, the article by www.langenthalertagblatt.ch interesting approaches and puts the dystopia into conversation with current developments. The parallels between literature and reality are often scary and invite you to think.