It is kind of religion - sort of classical American Yankee machine-worship. Even the Puritans/Pilgrims thought that organization - essentially a technology - co

It is kind of religion - sort of classical American Yankee machine-worship. Even the Puritans/Pilgrims thought that organization - essentially a technology - could save them from the swamp gases of British life. And I can't say it didn't work, but I'm probably a fanatic at this religion anyway. I think Mark Twain more or less says this outright in "Connecticut Yankee." Speaking of Twain, he grievously injured himself financially chasing the dream of a typesetting machine far ahead of its time. If it's religion, it's religion that (mostly) works. <insert Panglossian diatribe here>