The Machine Will Never Triumph: A Lawrencian Critique of Technology

Chapter Outline

1. Introduction

2. About D. H. Lawrence

3. America: A Case Study

.. 1. The Evening Land

4. Media Simulacra

.. 1. When I went to the film—

5. Food and Diet

.. 1. Food of the North

.. 2. Mystic

6. Travel

.. 1. Tourists

.. 2. Travel is over.

7. Modern Medicine

.. 1. The Scientific doctor.

.. 2. Healing.

8. The Cities

.. 1. City-Life

.. 2. The factory cities.

.. 3. In the cities

9. Overpopulation

.. 1. People

.. 2. There are too many people.

.. 3. Humanity needs pruning

10. Money

.. 1. Money-madness—

.. 2. Kill money—

.. 3. Choice

.. 4. Poverty

11. Modern Humans

.. 1. Let the dead bury their dead—

.. 2. Dead people

.. 3. Wellsian futures

.. 4. A man

.. 5. Know thyself, and that thou art mortal

.. 6. Forte dei Marmi

.. 7. We die together.

.. 8. Men like Gods

.. 9. Poison.

.. 10. The human face.

12. Canaille / The Masses

.. 1. Multitudes.

.. 2. The breath of life

.. 3. En masse.

.. 4. Dark Satanic Mills

.. 5. Fellow-men

.. 6. Love thy neighbour—

13. Robots

.. 1. The Gulf

.. 2. The Cross.

.. 3. Hold Back!

.. 4. Impulse.

.. 5. On and on and on—

.. 6. But I say unto you: Love one another.

.. 7. As thyself—!

.. 8. Revolutions as such!

.. 9. Robot feelings

.. 10. Robot-democracy.

.. 11. Real democracy.

.. 12. The Evil World-Soul

14. Capitalism and Communism

.. 1. The root of our evil—

15. Greed

.. 1. The mosquito knows—

16. War and Peace

.. 1. Attila

.. 2. Future War

.. 3. Strife

.. 4. The late War

.. 5. Murder.

.. 6. Murderous Weapons

17. Modern Science

.. 1. Self-protection

.. 2. Anaxagoras

18. Christianity

.. 1. Astronomical Changes

19. Work

.. 1. All that we have is life—

.. 2. Let us be men—

.. 3. Work

.. 4. What is he?

.. 5. The ignoble procession—

.. 6. Men are not bad—

.. 7. Wages

.. 8. What have they done to you—

.. 9. The People.

20. Homo Faber

.. 1. Bowls

.. 2. Things men have made—

.. 3. Things made by iron—

.. 4. New houses, new clothes—

.. 5. Whatever man makes—

.. 6. We are transmitters—

.. 7. The combative spirit

21. Egotism

.. 1. Vengeance is mine—

.. 2. Men like Gods.

.. 3. What then is Evil?

.. 4. Death is not Evil, Evil is Mechanical.

22. Psychology

.. 1. Escape

.. 2. Nemesis

.. 3. The sane universe

.. 4. Fear of society is the root of all evil

.. 5. Sane and insane.

.. 6. Cowards

.. 7. God and the Holy Ghost.

23. Gender

.. 1. A tale told by an idiot

.. 2. Men and Women

.. 3. Glimpses

24. Democracy

.. 1. Democracy

.. 2. The middle-classes

.. 3. Liberty’s old story

.. 4. Democracy is Service

.. 5. False democracy and real.

25. Nation States

.. 1. Future States.

26. What is to be done?

.. 1. To let go or to hold on—?

.. 2. Destiny

.. 3. Why—?

.. 4. There is no way out—

.. 5. Know Thyself.

.. 6. Be still!

.. 7. Being alive

.. 8. What is a man to do?

.. 9. Minorities in danger.

27. Revolution

.. 1. O start a revolution—

.. 2. Fight! O my young men—

.. 3. No joy in life—

.. 4. For all that.

.. 5. A sane revolution

.. 6. Welcome Death.

.. 7. Race and battle.

28. Sacrifice

.. 1. Self-Sacrifice.

.. 2. Shedding of blood.

29. The End of the World

.. 1. Our day is over

.. 2. Dies Irae

.. 3. Dies Illa

.. 4. The death of our era

.. 5. Nothing to save.

.. 6. Walk Warily

30. Futility

.. 1. Tragedy

.. 2. Fatigue

31. The Machine

.. 1. The triumph of the machine.

.. 2. The triumph of the machine. [2]

.. 3. Man and Machine

.. 4. Masses and Classes

.. 5. Oh wonderful machine!

.. 6. If you are a man—

32. Aristocracy

.. 1. Aristocracy of the sun

.. 2. The Sight of God

.. 3. Service.

33. Trees and Flowers

.. 1. Fallen Leaves.

.. 2. The difference.

.. 3. Trees in the Garden

.. 4. Cabbage-roses.

.. 5. Flowers and Men.

34. Animals

.. 1. Man and Bat

.. 2. Snake

.. 3. Mountain Lion

.. 4. Lizard

.. 5. Peacock

.. 6. Paltry-looking-people—

.. 7. Butterfly

35. Childhood, Youth, and Education

.. 1. Poor young things—

.. 2. Young fathers

36. Pride

.. 1. Self-pity

37. Resurrection and Rejuvenation

.. 1. The new word

.. 2. Sun in me

.. 3. Climbing down.

38. Physicality

.. 1. When I went to the circus—

.. 2. Cry of the masses.

.. 3. Future Religion

.. 4. Non-existence

.. 5. Demiurge.

.. 6. The work of Creation

.. 7. Red Geranium and Godly Mignonette

.. 8. Bodiless God.

39. Life and Vitality

.. 1. The primal passions—

.. 2. Vitality

.. 3. Cold blood.

.. 4. Terra incognita.

.. 5. Be it so.

.. 6. Man is more than /homo sapiens/.

.. 7. For the heroes are dipped in Scarlet.

.. 8. Kissing and horrid strife.

40. Togetherness and Solitude

.. 1. Noli me tangere—

.. 2. Loneliness

.. 3. Delight of being alone.

.. 4. Lonely, lonesome, loney-o!

.. 5. The breath of life.

41. The Simple Things

.. 1. A living

42. Love

.. 1. The Turning Back

43. Free Will and Destiny

.. 1. Free Will.

44. The Need for Roots

.. 1. The Uprooted.

.. 2. Evil is homeless.

45. The Need for Rananim

.. 1. Give us the Thebaid.

.. 2. Side-step, O sons of men!

.. 3. Departure

.. 4. Temples.

46. Elemental

.. 1. The sea, the sea—

.. 2. Fire

.. 3. Fire [2]

.. 4. The third thing

.. 5. Think—!

.. 6. What are the wild waves saying—?

.. 7. Storm in the Black Forest

.. 8. The Rainbow

.. 9. They say the sea is loveless

.. 10. The Four

47. Truth Seeking

.. 1. Search for truth.

.. 2. The half-blind

.. 3. Thought

48. Cosmology

.. 1. Swan

.. 2. Give us gods

.. 3. Spiral flame

.. 4. Space

.. 5. The Wandering Cosmos.

49. The Sun and Moon

.. 1. Moon memory

.. 2. Sun-men

.. 3. Conscience

.. 4. Immorality

.. 5. The Hostile Sun

.. 6. Sunset

.. 7. Listen to the band!

.. 8. Invocation to the Moon.

.. 9. Stoic.

50. The Perennial Philosophy

.. 1. Bells.

51. Angels, Daemons, and Lucifer

.. 1. Old Archangels

.. 2. Lucifer

.. 3. Lucifer [2]

52. God and the Gods

.. 1. God

.. 2. All-knowing

.. 3. The Mills of God.

.. 4. Absolute Reverence.

.. 5. Belief

.. 6. Talk of faith.

.. 7. Worship.

.. 8. Classes

.. 9. What are the gods?

.. 10. The gods! the gods!

.. 11. Name the gods!

.. 12. There are no gods—

.. 13. All sorts of gods.

.. 14. God is Born

.. 15. Middle of the World.

.. 16. The Body of God

.. 17. Maximus

.. 18. The Man of Tyre.

.. 19. The Hands of God

.. 20. Pax.

.. 21. Lord’s Prayer

53. Eschatology

.. 1. At last—

.. 2. People who care

.. 3. Salvation

.. 4. Fatality

.. 5. Souls to save

.. 6. When most men die.

.. 7. Two ways of living and dying.

.. 8. Gladness of Death.

.. 9. Ship of Death [1]

.. 10. Song of Death

.. 11. Prayer

.. 12. Bavarian Gentians

.. 13. Silence.

.. 14. Abysmal Immortality

.. 15. Only Man

.. 16. The Ship of Death. [2]

.. 17. The ship of Death. [3]

.. 18. All Souls Day.

.. 19. Beware the unhappy dead!

.. 20. After All Saints Day.

.. 21. Forget

.. 22. Know-all.

.. 23. Tabernacle

.. 24. Shadows.

.. 25. Change

.. 26. Phoenix

54. Bibliography