Made me think of the Charlie Chaplin movie, Modern Times.<\/p>\n
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“We had expected everything but revolt
\nAnd I kind of wonder myself when they started thinking–
\nBut there\u2019s no dice in that now.
\nI\u2019ve heard fellow say
\nThey must have planned it for years and maybe they did.
\nLooking back, you can find little incidents here and there,
\nLike the concrete-mixer in Jersey eating the wop
\nOr the roto press that printed “Fiddle-dee-dee!”
\nIn a three-color process all over Senator Sloop,
\nJust as he was making a speech.\u00a0 The thing about that
\nWas, how could it walk upstairs?\u00a0 But it was upstairs,
\nClicking and mumbling in the Senate Chamber.
\nThey had to knock out the wall to take it away
\nAnd the wrecking-crew said it grinned.
\nIt was only the best
\nMachines, of course, the superhuman machines,
\nThe ones we\u2019d built to be better than flesh and bone,
\nBut the cars were in it, of course . . .”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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