Por que o interrogador no Cloud Atlas se importaria com os procedimentos legais para um fabricante?

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One of the stories in Cloud Atlas is about a waitress who is a fabricant; an artificially cloned person who is biologically identical to humans. The waitress, Somni-451, is freed from slavery by Hae-Joo Chang, a rebel against the corporate-state and human rights activist who wants to expose how corporations use human clones as slaves. She is caught and interrogated by an "archivist" recording her story after her arrest and trial.

Aqui faz parte da cena de interrogação.

                             

Alguém poderia pensar que o propósito de tal interrogatório seria obter informações sobre os rebeldes para que o governo corporativo pudesse destruir a rebelião. Mas a conversa gasta mais tempo em temas de amor e interconectividade do que "onde podemos encontrar os rebeldes" ou "quem mais o ajudou a escapar".

Por que as corporações ou funcionários do governo sequer se importariam com os sentimentos de Somni-451 ou com sua versão dos acontecimentos? Por que um "arquivista" até perguntaria? Ela é uma não pessoa sem posição legal. Um verdadeiro governo corporativo todo-controlador provavelmente a mataria segundos depois de capturá-la. Ela é muito de um símbolo agora.

But now that they captured her and brought back from Hawaii to Neo-Seoul, why would they care to go through any legal proceedings at all? They could just send her back to the factory to be destroyed and converted into protein soup for the other fabricants.

    
por RichS 24.03.2017 / 02:25

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No livro de David Mitchel, parece que os genomicistas pressionaram pelo "arquivismo" de Sonmi para aprender mais sobre a própria Sonmi.

ch. 5 - Um Orison de Sonmi-451:

    [Sonmi] Archivist, I do not wish to offend you, but is your youth dewdrugged or genuine? I am puzzled. Why has my case been assigned to an apparently inxperienced corpocrat?
    [Archivist] No offense taken, Sonmi. I am an xpedience—and yes, an undewdrugged xpedience, I am still in my twenties. The xecs at the Ministry of Unanimity insisted that you, as a heretic, had nothing to offer corpocracy’s archives but sedition and blasphemy. Genomicists, for whom you are a holy grail, as you know, pulled levers on the Juche to have Rule 54.​iii—the right to archivism—enforced against Unanimity’s wishes, but they hadn’t reckoned on senior archivists watching your trial and judging your case too hazardous to risk their reputations—and pensions—on. Now, I’m only eighth-stratum at my uninfluential ministry, but when I petitioned to orison your testimony, approval was granted before I had the chance to come to my senses. My friends told me I was crazy.
    So you are gambling your career on this interview?
    … That is the truth of the matter, yes.
    Your frankness is refreshing after so much duplicity.
    A duplicitous archivist wouldn’t be much use to future historians, in my view.

    
24.03.2017 / 14:45