I have come to this comment section only to implore everyone to make sure that they watch "All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace" - and in doing so, perh

I have come to this comment section only to implore everyone to make sure that they watch "All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace" - and in doing so, perhaps also discover Richard Brautigan's poetry. Brautigan's story was a tragic one, and in this poem's suggested naïve future vision - in which the machines we build actually do as we might imagine they ought - maybe suggests that he would never be satisfied by the way in which the world really worked out. I am a huge and unapologetic fan of Adam Curtis. In All Watched Over, he argues that borderline psychopaths, in the thrall of Ayn Rand's poisonous ideas, built American capitalism. It seems as good a thesis as any, to me.