A. Troubled, my wife left me today. No, it wasn't for another man even though that seems to be the popular theory. It was much simpler than that, we didn't love each other.
Q. Why didn't you love her?
A. I didn't say I didn't love her, I said we did not love each other, there is a difference. A one sided love is merely a prolonged infatuation, infact that is exactly what love is in the one-dimensional sense, an unending infatuation. She didn't love me and because of that I was forced to sleep with another woman.
Q. Didn't you say she left you?
A. Well, yes...she was the one unhappy with the arrangement, I loved her enough that I would've continued our rocky relationship. She was a very selfish woman.
Q. Let's change the subject, where do you see yourself going from here?
A. No where, absolutely no where. I'm destitute, you moron. Without money there is nothing in this world, no place left to go, no sense of worth, no happiness, no love...you can't buy a woman what she wants without money, god damn materialistic world. When they are wearing pearls and furs they love you and the moment they are fed a skim meal, they hang you out to dry.
Q. Were there finanical difficulties in your marriage?
A. Difficulties?! Godammit you're a f'ing idiot. You can't put two and two together without someone telling you to. Ofcourse there were financial difficulties, that was the crux of the issue. If her good-for-nothing father had left her the share of wealth which was due to her I could've cashed in on the easy life years before. I was deceived, and the damn wench wasn't even willing to fight for her rights. You know, she had the gall to ask me: "But aren't we happy now? Why do we need money?" Well, i'm sure I showed her a thing or two about happiness...damn, right I did.
Q. Did you use abuse her physically?
A. What the fuck are you trying to say? Abuse?! You make it sound like a crime, yes I hit her damn it, I hit her real good and then I raped her little sister...damn bitch had it coming anyways, with the kind of clothes she wore, and the number of male friends she had. Had made by honest home into a whore house. Good thing, I did her in.
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Ralph: Hey, thought i'd give you guys a heads up, the Big Guy is headed...
Big Guy: That was amazing! I just heard it over the broadcast channel. I can scarcely believe the work you bastards have done, 2.0 is actually connecting coherency fragments together in a logical manner! I mean granted...
Zimmerman: Uhmm Doctor...
Doctor: ...granted that the links its making are somewhat outrageous and I found its way of responding to the questions rather indirect, we'll have to work on that. Also, what Morals and Ethics module did you load the test up with? 2.0 sounded positively barbaric, at times but that's still remarkable...
Ralph: Doctor Steinberg, that wasn't 2.0...
Steinberg: ...remarkable. I especially loved the witty wordplay it was displaying with the meaning of love...wait, what did you say?
Zimmerman: I'm sorry, Dr. Steinberg. I wasn't expecting you to be back so soon, I was just playing the audio from my psychotic neighbour's trial, he was convicted of raping and murdering his wife's younger sister.
Steinberg: Remarkable, I would have never thought of that.
Steinberg leaves the room beaming like a madman. He rushes outside to greet the rain which is pouring down in earnest now. It's not invertible...the Turing Test is non-invertible, or is it? He relishes that thought for a moment. Oh it IS invertible, we just don't want to understand what that means. He writes down the words on hand and then stares back to admire them.
The Steinberg Test: "If a remote observer cannot tell whether a human being is responding to his queries or an automation, then the questioned is indeed, not human."
Humanity, is not a birth-right, its a privilege.
