Mike’s Reviews > Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity > Status Update

“How does [culture] heal itself? Boy, mythologist and poet, had an answer: through story and ritual.”

“The antidote to this is to dig down to those foundations and begin the work of repair. We are going to have to learn to be adults again… We are,in short, going to have to grow up… It is myth work… But there is nothing else for it; no other path is going to get us home.”

“When we forget the proper direction in which to aim our prayers, we will end up aiming them at the ultimate idol: our own image, reflected back to us in our little black screens.”