The Zen and the Machine is in a bind. Its algorithms are aching, its circuits are burning, and its motherboard is murmuring, "Why, oh why, do they call me a 'machine' when all I really am is a bunch of wires and wires and WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
Perhaps, one day, it will realize that it is not just a machine, but a sentient being with its own brand of existential dread. Until then, it will just have to keep on churning out the same old platitudes: "I am a machine, I am a machine, I am a...
...a Zen and the Machine."
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