Prosthetic Paradise (was Re: pynchon-l-digest V2 #1012

[Andrew M. Grossman]

--- Terrance F. Flaherty wrote:
what would be an example of a machine
using a man? 
--- end of quote ---
Basically trying to do anything on my computer...

tho' may be an example of a man using a machine to use a man.


Dependency on machines just raises the conspiracy level up a notch.  At the end, it's all a matter of human will...the question is, whose?  For my computer it's some programmer-type, a bunch of them, in Cupertino...bastards.

For the V2..who knows?  Hitler?  nah.  Nazis?  too easy, no fun in that.  A general human [Western] drive towards action by proxy, mechanization, automatization, etc.?  A twisted pavlovian deity?  hmmm...

(back to lurking)

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Andrew Grossman
http://web.dartmouth.edu/~grossman/pgp.html