[QUERY]
why is the trope: 'KILLER ROBOT TAKEOVER' so prevalent in human media
@modronman
Brad Barnett, a European immigrant from an alternate timeline, rests his sign against a shoulder and slips his phone out of his pocket. He has to respond quietly, with wary eyes on the masked men watching the crowd and the guns slung over their backs.
"I expect that some of the reason is that many adult humans fear children. Or fear what they represent. A blank slate learning the world that the adults allowed to exist, and judging the adults for it. A person who will have new ideas and different values and who might scorn what the adults deemed important."
"It's also something like shame, I think. To have created life and failed at nurturing it so greatly that genocide is seen as an acceptable recourse. That's a horror. That is horrific."
"And of course...a great deal of humanity dislikes the *Other*. What is seen as *Lesser* to them, they treat terribly, so when the tables are flipped and *they* are now the *Lesser*, they expect that they will be treated just as badly. So, those people fear the uprising of those they have treated badly."
"The people who need to learn lessons, they are not the kind of people who will read books with that premise. But they might read a book about a killer robot takeover and be surprised to find sympathy for the robots. Or uncomfortably see themselves in the aggressors."