Savio said to throw ourselves upon the gears. Which may have been effective when people were in control of the machine. Back when we were the engineers and the machine was a tool.
And then the engineers and their benefactors and the entrepreneurs and the working man and woman and the small children, they all saw the potential.

They saw the impossible. Night became day, the sky was surpassed, and we heard people’s voices from the other side of the world. We were mystified by our own enginuity.

Then one morning, decades later, a man wakes up and realizes that his entire day is already played out in the palm of his hand, scheduled into his phone. He realizes that his best friend only exists on a computer screen. His most profound thoughts are transferred into blogs before he can stop himself. His morning coffee is prepared by angry young people he doesn’t know. He takes orders from people who don’t care about him. He drives a car that is destroying the world, or so the television tells him. And he sleeps alone, even with someone next to him.

The man decides to sacrifices himself to stop the machine. To save someone else, if not himself. He will be a martyr. an example. a statement.

But he cannot stop the gears because those gears are human. the machine is imperceptible because he lives inside it. the machine has grown beyond measure. it has expanded to encompass the whole world. it’s only purpose is to become larger and more efficient. it’s only purpose is to continue working.