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Coffee Shop Darwinians
“We’ll set a fine, new, well-oiled machine in place of the old one and
this time we’ll put the Normans into it instead. That’s what justice
means, isn’t it?”
-Saxon Monk in Becket
No, of course it didn’t
have to happen
We’re not campus coffee shop
Darwinians
Determined that five
innocents needed to die
Within the gears of our
new, well-oiled machine
And that more should come,
chanting “O Machine!” 1
“Follow the Science!” and
“Learn. To. Code!”
As they sacrifice
themselves to a Tweeter-sanctioned
Infestation of Manifest
Destiny
And I’ve got a feeling, as
you might agree:
No one on either side quotes
Dostoyevsky
1 “The Machine Stops,” E. M. Forster
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