Connections - Chapter Seven: We are Machines

When Billy Pilgrim described his father-in-law as a machine, it made me think of the Terminator movies. Billy Pilgrim says that "Earthlings are offended by the idea of being machines." Just like in the movies, the people are scared of the Terminator so they try to hunt him down and kill him. The Tralfamadorians say that every creature is a machine. If you think about it, our bodies are organic machines that work in such a meticulous way so that we can live and function.