"All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace" Anti or Pro Technology?

One may view this poem "All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" by Brautigan, in a anti technology standpoint because of Brautigan reference the human race as mammals. Brautigan reference of human being mammals shows that the machines are superior in a godlike matter. That humans are "all watched over by Machines of Loving Grace". But this statement rather than being pro technology is more anti technology. Its an example of when something goes to extent of extreme that it becomes sarcastic. As well as his use of phase and urgency, like " the sooner, the better!" or "right now, Please!" after hopeful statement like "I like to think", really pokes fun at the need of technology, that if his life depended on it. However, the strongest anti technology statement in Brautigan poem is within the last stanza. "And joined back to nature/returned to our mammal/brothers and sisters/and all watched over/by machines of loving grace." In this stanza suggest that Brautigan rather not live if the word is going to be "cybernetic" and being watched over by "computer gods".He would rather go back to the dark age or being an animal, because there would be no point in life when everything is done for oneself. And that a human being can't be living, if they are active in any part of there life.

However, one can also look at this poem in a pro technology fashion. From the first line of the first Stanza, one can say that Brautigan is hoping for technology. He starts each stanza with a "I like to think", showing hope in the future for technology. Also, images such as the "strolling deer" passing the computers as they were "flowers with spinning blossoms" suggest that Brautigan might actually believe that nature and technology can co-exist. Lines like " live together mutally" and "where we are free of our labors" suggest that Brautigan doesn't mind having a easily life where they are watch over by Machines. The machines aren't all bad either, at least they are capable of a "loving grace"

Though this poem can be both pro technology and anti technology, I still stand on the anti technology. Because my own interpretation of the last stanza being so powerful. The question that Brautigan oppose to all readers of this poem is, what is living without being activate. Letting a machine do all your labor, what is there left to do? Is it life without doing anything? If a person is satisfied they are unhappy. Humans are born to chase their goal, but never archive it. Why is it only a chase? Because when a person is satisfied, what is next? Nothing is left for them, but to be watched over. In short, I felt Brautigan suggest that technology can't satisfy what humans need, and that technology is not the answer to all the worlds problem. Sometimes things have to be done by humans, because its meant to be there to satisfy and be done by humans.