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Such a culture has its trajectories and its internal dynamics which must be played out, until it collapses from its own alien meaninglessness, succumbing to the rebellions of a denied biology, or worse, to the rebellions of an outraged irrationality, of mindless superstition, of subversion, corruption, and hatred, of blind zealotry or intentionally inculcated fanaticism. - (Mercenaries of Gor, Chapter 25, Sentence #971)

The culture with which she had been familiar was, at that time unbeknownst to her, for lack of a contrast or alternative, a gray, arid, unnatural, mechanistic culture. She knew no other. Machines, in their way, have their own priorities and ideals. Such a culture has its trajectories and its internal dynamics which must be played out, until it collapses from its own alien meaninglessness, succumbing to the rebellions of a denied biology, or worse, to the rebellions of an outraged irrationality, of mindless superstition, of subversion, corruption, and hatred, of blind zealotry or intentionally inculcated fanaticism. A world of plastics and circuits, attacked, hemorrhages with human blood. A culture which fulfills the machine and not man is a culture in which man is alienated, a culture in which he is not himself but essentially an appendage to industry and technology, an emigrant from himself, a foreigner on the soil of his own soul. In the human condition sexuality is radically central, and the machine has no need of innate sexuality. - (Mercenaries of Gor)