ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE
Richard Brautigan's æ all watched over by machines of loving grace Æ shows the theme of past or present with the future. It shows how today technology is taking over, computers are everywhere and one day in the future, they will replace our class in society.
Brautigan dreams of cybernetic world in which technology and nature agree with each other. Instead of human beings dominating other species, humans and animals are on same level. The computers became the dominating species and we all live together in harmony as if there were no differences. Computers can take care of the entire world and humans can be free of labours and join back to nature. This poem is symbolic of how we live with animals. We are dominated species and in the poem, computers replace us. Brautigan connects the ideas of the past, present, and reality with the future of computers taking over human jobs and positions, creating them to be the æ mothers Æ that look over.
Richards dreams of paradise free of labour (at least the mind and the soul numbing labour most humans must endure to earn three square and a roof over the head). So that like the beast of the forest we wake, sleep, eat, procreate and socialize without the bitterness of want our current state entails: that is the promise of machines of loving grace. What Richards mean is to equalized between technology and nature because one day technology will take over us.