B. Renaissance Man!-a bit slop–
py all around, but LOYAL; a
little suspicious of long-hairs,
but a GOOD GUY. You peo–
ple got hold of the machines
and began to breed!
A. "You people" indeed! From
what immaculate conception do
you liberals emanate? The ma–
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mise, a frozen formula. No
art–
ist has succeeded in scaring the
public with a machine until it
was put in human form. It's
Stalin and not the atom bomb
we're afraid of. Emerson, Tho–
reau, and Henry Adams ranted
about the Machine because
most of the time they were po–
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B. Keep the Machine, then, but
spirit involves a good deal more
than politics.
A.
Of course it does, but who was
it but you nondescript liberals
who taught us how to make
your whole business of "spirit"
slightly ridiculous, starting with
the Hegelian abstract rubber–
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"Man's Fate," your "Integral
Humanism," and so on.
If
we
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the "Man," whom you imagine
you can snatch out of history
by capitalizing his name, made
a corporate decision against his
"higher possibilities," his "dig–
nity," and all the rest. Dignity
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