"The title comes from a 1967 poem by Richard Brautigan, the poet laureate of the hippies, which ends like this:
I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labours
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.
Literary critics debate whether Brautigan was being sincere or tongue in cheek, a hallmark of the ambiguity that surrounds good art."
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First seen: 2026-09-18 ·
Last seen: 2026-09-18 ·
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