Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.
My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.
The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.
It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine.
Television is the triumph of machine over people.
Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
Now that we all live in a bad '70s sci-fi movie, I am made to understand the tyranny of the machines every minute of every day.