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

“If the self is our object of worship and science our new priesthood, then we could say that sex is our liturgy and prayer rule.” P241

Using ancient Egypt and their gods/goddesses tied into the material-“This matters because societies built around a notion of the sacred have an immunity to the gravity of the purely physical.” P234

“Neither left nor right were equipped to understand what was going on:both,instead,would typically retreat to their historic comfort zones, with the left blaming ‘fascists’ and the right blaming ‘Marxists’ for the ongoing disintegration. The real source of the disintegration,though, was not partisan: it was the Machine.” P228

“REASON (Enlightenment) is appealing, because it implies that humans can use their faculties to order the universe, and that the universe will respond in kind. We want desperately to believe this story…in a Godless age…because it tells us we understand the world…and that this understanding will allow us to control it.” P61

“ ‘It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.’” -Wendell Berry quote at beginning