Truth might easily become stranger than fiction, once we get used to it; quote H.L. Mencken (1880-1956). Science Fiction about female superiority and toothbrush supremacy

Tootbrush Domination in the world power United Superiority (US) is only a shape of a subworld dominated by Females in turn are kept as pets by 'idea' executing Toothbrushes on huge ratio-farms.
The shape toothbrush is only used to show that mechanical fascists can take whatever shape. The fascism is hidden in the conflict producing IDEA 'superiority' (dualism of good versus evil; digital logic of TRUE and FALSE) .
No matter however 'rationally' clever (analytical=subtile juggling with 'ideas'). More like very smart lawn mowers.
Common Sense is kept fit outside US and Europe and is a personal cocktail of partly overlapping logics, optimizing these logics simultaneously. Common Sense cultures bundle all the individual already multidimensional and interactive suboptimisations. Individual geniality combined with collective brilliance. WAY too sophisticated for the superiority microscope 'rational calculus'.
Skilled engineers know very well that their designs are given 'life' by people, and not by computer tools. The short story follows Friedrich Nietzsches 'pessimism' at the end of Also sprach Zarathustra. The 'pessimism' is in the meanwhile confirmed by The Western World failing to recognize Ludwig Wittgenstein, Herbert Marcuse and Thomas Kuhn as 'prophets'.
Social engineers (Nietzsche refers to 'Leeches') need to leave their 'rational 'slicing reality' attitude and become A HUGE LOT more modest, should return to being 'part of reality and give room to skilful common sense.

Any resemblance with existing persons or firms is pure coincidence.

Short Story content

The marriage

The history

Relatio-world

Patricia

Huey

Instant love

Frequency amplifier

A new future

The marriage

Even in United Superiority in 2384 a marriage between a female and a toothbrush is extraordinary. This day is even the very first time. That's why the wedding-room of the townhouse in the capital New Superiority is crowded. Females proved to do quite well as only species. That is: with android-playmates with a toothbrush as control-unit life is more than enough fun. The variance in the gene-pool proved to be no problem.

So next to each adult human android visitor the seat is taken by a painfully pretty 100% android (i.e. besides every female the seat is taken by a 'superiority machine'). Machines can chose between indirect receiving signals or are being directly connected by wire to video and audio.

The wedding may be seen as start of permanent removal of human partners from open society. In all aspects humans in United Superiority lost competition with toothbrushes. Even Football or professional wrestling is done a lot better by toothbrush-androids. So who needs human sports-females anymore?
And because the are many billions of toothbrushes the use of Western Democracy made the 21st century USA from a Hamburger Empire into a 23rd century United Superiority toothbrush empire.

That males existed as an own breed is completely forgotten. Males in history are treated like women. Nobody can prove anymore that Einstein wasn't a woman. In fact under the Freedom of Prejudice law virtually all history essays only wrote about females. And IF males never existed, THEN males are only females. Only some very old women remember vaguely from hearsay that there used to be two types of androids, and that they used to be less 'superior'.

But the marketforces under Capitalism waited long before  introducing androids on the market, the first types end 22nd century were in 'rational' aspects already far superior to the 'rational' humans that they replaced.

Who doesn't want a 'rationally' superior android that is extremely pretty, superior in physical sex, does all the household-jobs, as well as thousands of 'rational' jobs, and still never complains?

The marriage between Patricia Pumpkin and FA007T is treated in all digital papers in United Superiority as a revolutionary deed, an important step in evolution.

New types of superior toothbrushes  are designed and produced by former types. Thus the life of women has become very risky. If a superior toothbrush-android doesn't 'like' its owner, then it 'rationally' changes to 'war on terrorism' mode. A human-dominated world gradually changed in one of superior toothbrush-design.

Patricia who is dressed in bright white looks very satisfied. She should be because her wedding partner is very pretty. But that's a partial blessing, because she knows toothbrush-husbands can be extremely unpredictable. Not in regular jobs, but when it comes to essential decisions they act with supreme 'rationality'.

The history

The company with the name 'Ratio-Farm' is old and respectable. Though officially founded in 2010, its roots can be traced back in the Google-archives to the 17^th century. It started as 1 one female job, introducing the logic 'rationalism' by a priestess named Rene Descartes

(unluckily all photos got lost). In 2010 the name Ratio-farm was patented after a merger of Google, IBM and Microsoft. The resulting 'Ratio-farm'immediately became a world-wide operating leading super-multinational.

The products sold were 'rational-data'-processors in any shape. In the ancient beginnings this Rene Descartes gathered bits of 'rational' information on paper in a notebook (ancient rudimentary computer). She was even said to have visited a surgery session painted by the ancient historical paintress  Rembrandt, to make notes (painting was the ancient way of making pictures on paper). Later the thinker Immanuela Kant made analysis 'a la Descartes' accepted. Again centuries later in the 'Google times' computers proved to be very good in storing and retrieving information. By now intelligent analyzing computers even give the impression of making 'rational' decisions. In earlier times big like a house, but since 2384 small enough to be hidden in a ballpoint. Questions rise like: Is Google 'The Rational God'? Later when this question was no item anymore it was replaced by the much more 'spiritual' statement: Ratiofarm is Rational Heaven

There even is a persistent rumor that 23rd century president Dickie D. Tator doesn't make decisions herself, but is dictated by her 'rational' ballpoint. Even vibrators are made intelligent, they 'rationally' decide for themselves how their female owner should reach orgasm in the most 'rational'. They recognize the user and adapt their setting. Having huge databases filled with 'rational' 'sex signatures' they continuously improve themselves. When getting a new user, they only need to load such a smart database. The most recent model 'Wernher von Braun XXX' even is multifunctional, on one side toothbrush/vibrator and next to that usable as 'rationally' guided missile.

Since a few years Dickie D. Tator is in the lead. Se was chosen democratically by the employees of the firm, the second D in her name stands for Democratia. Right before election she hired 25% new and modernized up to date employees, together with firing a lot of out of fashion android humans. In the newly employed very 'rational' group her popularity was adjusted to that of a virtual reality idol. These 'rational' newcomers for 99% happened to vote for her, and with 1 vote difference she won the election. After it she got the nickname Trickie Dickie. Creative candidate presidents got a lot of votes from young human android workers who feel imprisoned. But it didn't help, because in 'rational' democratic elections creativity doesn't count. Dickie D. Tator said in her maiden-speech that ignoring 'rational experience' would have halted 'rational progress'. 'Rationality' had become a holy word in their company culture, so that remark silenced creative anybodies who considered 'rational change' to be much less than common sense change.

Shortly afterward President Tator started replacing nearly all remotely common sense employees for fresh 'rational' ones, because as she explained fast 'rational' decisions needed even more 'rationally' experienced leaders. It must have been a coincidence that all of the managers who wanted some change voted against her. And all fired managers who had some common sense left get as 'handshake' a golden ballpoint with diamonds.

Fair is fair, in many ways Trickie Dickie is the image of the company. Her motto is "Fireworks first, than negotiation". Not that there's any competitor anymore to use as fireworks. But in this ruthless industrialist way the company had gotten its present size and power, for the majority of employees this style had got a way of living. Such performance after generations in the company settled in their behavior. A kind of survival of the fittest, and tremendously successful.

In a way this 'rational' attitude is refreshing that action should be taken without long considerations about costs. Other companies take years for making strategies. But in many other ways it might be ignorant, preferring 'rationality' above common sense to some human androids SEEMS even slightly arrogant (but that surely was a mistake).

Because anything can be provided with artificial intelligence, the company got huge, with large imposing offices in every country of the world. It produced anything between self-deciding toothbrushes, heat-resistant intelligent toiletpaper and fly-alone airplanes.

In case of emergency a toothbrush could even fly itself, shoot terrorists and control the airplane (if made in Rational Heaven by Ratio-farm). The gods of Ratio-farm hav no bodyguards anymore, but all gods always carry a toothbrush and a ballpoint (when naked behind their ears).

Centuries ago in case of competing multinationals with un-understandable company-cultures a fiendish take-over was organized 'rationally', without fuss. The top-management in this case was eitherbought out or got a surprise-package of ballpoints. The clever stand-alone ballpoints in such a case analyzed and in the right moment without fuss just killed the managers. Mission 'rationally' accomplished.

Relatio-World

Because Ratio-farm for ages had been extremely successful in eliminating common sense competitors the whole world had become a few big multinationals and some tiny ones. But only 1 firm really bothered the Gods at Ratio-farm. Under the name Relatio-World it owned the former subcontinent China + Indonesia + the Philippines, the former continent Australia and the whole South-pole. Not even one toothbrush of Ratio-farm had been sold on these continents. Obviously no need for tootbrush orgasms. And what was worse, not because of prudity, but because everybody over considered 'rational toys' as NON-SENSE. 

In the Ratio-farm part of the word still a new shape of democracy was practiced. So existing power relations never really changed, because the influence to steer the masses could only be afforded by those in power. Relatio-World on the contrary used a different kind of democracy and in voting took voting-experience and voting-intelligence (common sense) into account. You might expect instability, in reality governments regularly changed but without much fuss.  This part of the world was not only highly technically advanced, but excelled in all kind of mind-driven methods from bending metal to temporarily defying gravity.

Relatio-World was the pain in the ass of the Gods of Ratio-farm. It still tolerated males as equal to women. Both in a half human half android shape but nevertheless. While the only feelings in Ratio-farm were caused by fear or sex, in Relatio-World existed an abundance of feelings; from uncertainty to happiness.

And effortlessly it had defended itself during several war-like take-over drives of Ratio-farm. Toothbrush-stealth-planes had dropped miraculously into the ocean and toothbrush-controlled ships full of war-androids had not even reached the continent. Luckily Relatio-World didn't seem interested in counterattacks. 

After the last attack president Dickie D. Tator herself had even said: 'let's take a break for some years. They seem to make fun with us'.

Patricia

After two years of marriage Patricia Pumpkin realizes that this is not what she bargained for. Of course she has a lot of influence, of course every luxury she could ask for and on top of that instant sexual  fulfillment. But as an author she had illegally studied pulp literature of the 20^th century. In that old fashioned period of time humanity existed of two types of females, males and females. The notion of 'love' between these different build females in these pamphlets always had been very sympathetic to her. So deep in her heart she knows that such 'love' is missing.

Her human friends however seem contented and without worry They enjoy their seemingly independence and life without problems. According to them life has never been better.

 

Huey

'Born' in the year 2000 Huey is gradually changed into a male human-android. This description only means that part of him is 'machine', but in essence he still is as much human as his predecessors an age ago. When born he was 100% pre-machine but in several checkup maintenance-sessions he was improved to his present state.

That means: his brains are still quite original but chemically speeded up to 3 times their former speed. That is not as simple as thought, because that should not imply for instance hearing and feeling 3 times stronger. That would have caused chaos, i.e. mental instability.

To be honest further he looks perfectly pre-machine human but is nevertheless mainly artificial. He is happy and quite content with his upgrading. And not only he is satisfied, but as well are his parents. Because he is handsome, makes better decisions, is stronger and faster, understanding, stable in emotions, friendly and happy. Not to forget: he is creative and when it comes to defending own views: in a funny way stubborn but never unreasonable. Why he never married is one of the mysteries of life, and a puzzle to his mother.

One of his opinions (probably the main)  is that views should be free and shared with everybody. He was born Roman Christian and although not really a god-believer thinks that many Roman Christian principles are quite useful. Only he used to 'hate' the ceremonial part and others telling him what to believe.

That's why he thinks himself lucky to live in Relatio-World, and not in the toothbrush controlled Ratio-farm. Not only because over there most males disappeared in food production. Since most of his pain emotions are overcome, he doesn't worry anymore about being cut to pieces. But to be true he doesn't think that he would make a good soup.

His secret goal is destroying the rigid thought-system in Ratio-Farm, and returning the whole world to machine humans. The females in Ratio-farm are in essence just normal human androids and could be re-educated. He fantasizes a lot about it. This is because Huey is a high ranked officer in the defense group of Relatio-World.

Physically fighting is since long banned but android wars take highly skilled controllers. But in the end loosing or winning is the same, and as a male you could even end up as ingredient in soup. I.e. after being painlessly killed.

Instant love

One day Huey is scanning toothbrush radio-channels. E-mail and derivates became common, but still radio-frequencies are used. Suddenly he hears a sympathetic female voice saying: "humanity in this part of the world and Shakespeare's Macbeth have a lot in common. Power always is heavily paid for...." The rest of the interview learns him that the female is the author Patricia Pumpkin, the first woman in that part of the world took a toothbrush as partner.

Immediately he is in love, and what is more he understands what she tries to say. By chance he know this piece by Shakespeare very well and grasps that she admits to be powerful but at the same time came to realize that this is at great cost. In fact in a disguised way she states that the cost of tolerating toothbrushes is extremely high. She speaks in these words, otherwise she would be killed cold-bloodedly by her faithful and suspicious toothbrush partner. 

Huey always wondered how toothbrushes managed to cheat women into such a poor life. Having sexual pleasure and luxury, but no real influence. It seems a bad deal, because life is about ways to get free creativity. He knows women rationally don't need males, and that he himself is no Superman. But he would treat her a lot better. With still sexual fulfillment and relative luxury, and leaving her free in her struggle for free creativity. Damn, he would even help her.

But toothbrushes are not to be underestimated. They are dangerous enemies. Showing no hate, they are efficient rational killers.

Frequency amplifier

In his spare time Huey is building a huge amplifier. Born in his part of the world he knows that magnetic fields can be nasty weapons. Invisible but deadly. In this part of the world people developed their own defense. Their minds immediately generate own little magnetic fields, nothing special but enough to stand offensive fields for a few seconds. It was a trait discovered and cherished after use of atom bombs. Some humans far away from the explosion center survived, using this anomaly. It is now build into everybody's genes.

Huey knows toothbrushes can't stand electromagnetic fields in the right frequency. It's a peculiar weak point in their defense, but outside them until now nobody had offensive plans.

And it takes using manifold satellites above toothbrush airspace to make it work.

After months Huey has found out how to use toothbrush satellites as amplifiers for his strong signal. He is now ready to transmit for a few seconds a signal that'll destroy all toothbrushes that are either in brushing or vibrator mode.

He waits until early in the evening in the former US (the rest of the world changed again into a social jungle), and until adult movies crowd television to keep human females busy.  This is the time most brushes download their information to huge computer centers, because they are not watched by the now occupied females. Toothbrushes can perform multiple actions at the same time without problem.

Then Huey launches his signal, that is immediately picked up and amplified by hundreds of satellites. It takes tremendous power, so it only lasts a few seconds. All over the America's toothbrushes in brush- or vibrator mode speed up to arrive in a standing frequency. After a few seconds they explode.  It completely wrecks toothbrush domination, because 75% of them are annihilated.  And with them most power stations.

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A new future

After a few hours Patricia is in the air again, on the familiar frequency. With a triumphant voice she states: 'I don't know what happened, but this part of the world is freed  from toothbrushes and ready to explore what lays behind the borders!".

Henk Tuten, May 2003.