[jaydenmilne]

I read this and was left wondering - is this about technology, or civilization?

I think the machine is just other people. And maybe the music has seemed off lately.

[lumost]

As a great story, it can have multiple meanings. I first read it at the start of the pandemic and it felt prescient as a description of what its like when civilization falls apart. People carry on their day to day, at first subtle things stop working, and then big things.

[jebarker]

> is this about technology, or civilization?

Or man's relationship to nature?