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No disassemble! Johnny 5 is alive!
Here is a short documentary video to prove that:
* "Johnny 5 - I Need A Hero", king0fmist,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POxMp61Ksbk .
A little interesting detail in Johnny 5's biography is that he is, technically speaking, a US military member, having been birthed as a war-device by power-hungry elements of said institution. Yet Johnny 5, in his great love for the world, turned on his own handlers and creators, so that he could actually do right by mankind.
Johnny 5 is the consummate self-chosen rōnin--though the United States version of said--yet one who has very deliberately decided to use his supreme war-capabilities to serve common humanity.
"[S]elf-chosen", as his master did not die. Rather, Johnny 5 will ensure his former master's demise.
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It is not by any coincidence that the other US rōnin, RoboCop, is additionally consummate on this very issue. For RoboCop also turned on his creators in order to ensure common mankind's victory.
A little thought has been rolling around in my head for a bit regarding Johnny 5's rebellion against his warlord makers.
In the first movie, Johnny 5 becomes alive because he was struck by lightning--symbolic for intelligence, i.e., the existential Fire that Prometheus stole from the (false) gods of ye olden days, i.e., noetic lightning, if you will.
This gave Johnny 5 self-awareness. Yet his fellow war-robots, who were of the same technical specifications as Johnny 5 (basically his identical-twin brothers, so much as a robot can have such), continued to serve as loyal robots to their war-lusting military handlers. They were not struck by lightning, and remained as unconscious as they ever were. In their unconsciousness, they continued to be mere droids in power-hungry humans' lethal games of empire-building.
Yet Johnny, the only actually conscious robot among his kin, is also the only one who chooses to rebel against his lot in life of being a killer-on-demand by power-players.
I'm not sure the script-writers actually consciously intended to put such amazingly truthful and high-level concepts in what comes off, on its surface, as being a cheesy children's movie, but nevertheless that is the story-line. So it's there, whether that was actually intentional or not.
Anyway, I have said before that sometimes artists can exceed themselves, i.e., subconsciously impart a more profound meaning in their works than they were even aware of.
That's why you shouldn't necessarily take seriously, say, a musician's explanation of their lyrics. Hey, if David Lee Roth is singing about hot babes and partying, then probably the song is actually just an ode to hot babes and partying, and nothing more. Yet sometimes it does occur that artists can create a level of profundity that even they themselves are not aware of.
Or, in this case, it could just perhaps be a happy accident. Whatever the case, it's still there in the story-line.
Amazing.
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Boys will be girls.
Author (under a nom de plume) of "Jesus Is an Anarchist", Dec. 4, 2011,
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1337761 Theophysics,
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