TECHNOMAGICAL
  f a s c i n a t i o n


     Technologies'

     Tantalizing

     Teleologies

           Promise 
           Progress.





Machines, 
          unlike the universe,
     are constructed by us-- 
          we hope--
     to be perfectly predictable.


Mechanical motions, 
                unlike humans',
     are all made
                to ends
                well known
                beforehand,
     with definite plans.



           . . . or, is this the image God made us in?

{If so, what's sin?}




                     As if can means should.

                     As if means are ends.



        How easy to imagine
        that the way to what we want
        will be provided by technology
                            eventually,
                            inexorably.
          As if it could be trusted to free us 
          from choice. 

          As if some divine mechanical, 
                            electrical, 
                            digital, 
                            ethical 
                            will absolves us.
                            
          As if some invisible hand
          provides automatic progress
                 for techno- pilgrims,
          push-button salvation.

          As if happiness will be found finally
          in a perfectly artificial environment.