M&D c50 The Golem

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Or divinely overlooked, as the New World might have seemed to some, including the Rev D, who is the real author of this tale, and not unfamiliar with the the Hindoo sense of the Void (not to mention the deism of The Framers)? No matter, I like your sense of the source of American Exceptionalism. Despite Prague, this is an American Golem.



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It seems to me to represent more a keen American Sense of being Divinely Protected, perhaps? Some unique manifestation of the Holy invisible Ghost..



  





On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 9:47 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

 
 “The function of science fiction is not only to predict the future, but to prevent it."   Ray Bradbury 


On Wednesday, April 3, 2013, wrote:

A' and it's worth pointing out that if Doc Frankenstein would've just cut the monster a little slack and exercised a little responsibility for his creation, things might have turned out better. Is it too late? I'd like to know.



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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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