It’s all fun and games and esoteric Terminator references now, but the truth is Google's acquisition of Boston Dynamics could well be the single most terrifying and disheartening piece of capitalism ever conducted.

On one side there’s old familiar Google, the megalomanical philanthropic data-collecting evil overlords of everything, with their “Google doodles” and “meeting pods” and stupid fucking soft play area offices. On the other side there’s robotics company Boston Dynamics, designers and manufacturers of various unholy abominations like the now infamous Big Dog, as featured in the this video.

There’s something unsettlingly real and bestial about Big Dog that makes me uneasy; like watching a lion eat its own cub or an orc emerge from its birth sack in the mountains of Mordor. It’s a freak of nature. Except of course it isn’t — that’s the paradox — there’s absolutely nothing natural about Big Dog; it is a cold, unfeeling machine devoid of emotion or instinct constructed by humans in a laboratory. In five years time, when it’s bashing your brains into a marshmallowy puree with its synthetic rubbery stumps at a protest against the incumbent Labour government’s abolition of lunch, it will feel no joy or satisfaction or anything. It feels nothing. It is Big Dog.

It also invokes in me a palpable feeling that what I’m witnessing is something inherently wrong and misguided. It’s a kind of a primordial clairvoyance that every right thinking person possesses; a nagging twinge deep in the essence of your soul telling you that rearing a legion of psychotic mutant monkeys or growing a T-Rex from the blood-samples of a million-year-old preserved mosquito probably isn’t a good idea, however totally bitchin' it might presently seem.

The problem is much of mankind, and in particular the scientists at Boston Dynamics, are not right thinking people at all, but dead-eyed psychopaths. They might look normal, they might even appear charmingly, endearingly gregarious, but believe me they’re psychopaths; myopic fools welding and fusing and programming and RDing their way to a dystopian fascist nightmare where dissent is negligible and sedition is impossible (because it’s only a matter of time before the Met, Serco and G4S get their hands on these).

Men and women in shirts and ties, with spouses and mortgages and hybrid cars, clocking into work for another eight hours of manufacturing tyranny. It’s the banality of an evil yet to come, like [CRUDE NAZI ANOALOGY ALERT!] going back in time and watching Germans vote in the 1933 election, willfully laying the foundations of their own subjugation all the while convinced of their own progressive righteousness.

You may think me a paranoid Luddite; after all we already employ robots for all sorts of tasks, like opening tins of things and mowing lawns and The Ramones. Except Boston Dynamics never had any intention of using their technological skills for benign philanthropic purposes like building robot lollypop ladies (Lollybots) or robot under 10's football coaches.

Indeed, prior to last week’s Google buy-out Boston Dynamics were majority funded by a shadowy wing of the US Military called DARPA (Defence Advanced Research Project Agency) as well as the US army, navy and marine corps. Contrary to popular opinion these machines aren’t entertaining spectacles of human progress and achievement, they’re weapons of war, and thus inherently regressive.

Google meanwhile has promised to honour these pre-existing contracts, effectively making Google (company slogan: “Don’t Be Evil”) a directly complicit partner firm in the US military’s never-ending pursuit of ever more ingenious ways of killing poor brown people.

This is where the Skynet comparisons inevitably and understandably arise - a tech company building animatronic monstrosities leading to a dystopian collapse of civility brought about by said animatronic monstrosities - but it’s also where they end.

In Terminator the robots become sentient and turn against their human creators. In reality the robots probably won't bother. Traditionally bred human-led governments have already proven more than capable of using robots to kill and enslave each other, so why intervene? Best let the humans destroy themselves, then take charge later on.

Which kind of renders the whole discussion academic.

Of the 535 Pakistani civilians killed by US drone strikes since 2003 how many would be comforted or disgusted or feel differently had the robot that killed them done so of its own accord, and not on the order of affable, nothing-like-George-Bush Democrat President Obama?

When, in the near future, you’re lining up opposite an army of Boston Dynamics-made Atlas bot-cops, protesting for the right to live as a person and not just exist as an asset, what difference will it make whether those standing behind the Atlases are human politicians or just more robots?

On who’s orders will you be surveilled and killed by a swarm of quodcopters? On who’s orders will our skulls be crushed to soupy goo under a Big Dog paw?

Why should you even care? Our fate is already sealed. Sad in some ways but also one less thing to worry about.

Now here’s a succinct ten minute montage showcasing the machines that will be killing and maiming you and your loved ones in the near future. At least they've had the decency to add some menacing music to this one. Merry Christmas.