M&D c50 The Golem

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Wed Apr 3 21:09:52 CDT 2013


Mary Shelly resurrected the Golem most nobly. And it still has legs.

Frankenstein is about hubris, as is the Golem.
Technology is Modern Hubris.

David Morris

On Wednesday, April 3, 2013, wrote:

> It has to be technology, no? But not just nuts and bolts (thru the neck),
> but in the ephemeral and awesome, and especially, American sense, as in Leo
> Marx's, "Machine in the Garden," or, David Nye's, "American Technological
> Sublime." There's a tendril to O Boy, A' and to King Lud- Big and bad, but
> not evil, at least not in the mythos of Americanism, as it had developed up
> till recent times. Most of the news clips didn't show it, but in a few
> grainy, bootleg, early digital videos, if you look closely, you can just
> make out a big hairy arm clinging to the top of the north tower.
>
>
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> Heard of Google?
>
> On Wednesday, April 3, 2013, Lemuel Underwing wrote:
>
>> What is the Golem? Is it "the" American Religion?
>>
>>
>>
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