Two quotes from Wendell Berry:

The next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.

From Life is a Miracle (published 2000).

I know that there are some people, perhaps many, to whom you cannot appeal on behalf of the body. To them, disembodiment is a goal, and they long for the realm of pure mind—or pure machine; the difference is negligible. Their departure from their bodies, obviously, is much to be desired, but the rest of us had better be warned: they are going to cause a lot of dangerous commotion on their way out.

From “Feminism, the Body, and the Machine” (published 1990).

I used to think these comments from Wendell Berry were hyperbolic. In 2025, I think so no longer.