"Where your treasure is there your heart will be also." These are the words Jesus spoke in Matthew 6:21. Commodity fetishism is alive and well here in the US. This is part of our human nature that Walt Disney was able to capitalize on beginning in 1930 with the popular cartoon myths that he created.
In reading Cobb, it is clear that one of the fundamental theological questions in human nature is "Who are these humans that God has made?" I appreciated the parallels that Cobb draws between questions such as these and the replicants in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. The perfect, unstoppable Cyborgs who are incapable of real human feeling and authentic emotion and desire to be made human. I think that Cobb makes a good point as he talks about how as humans we desire the seeming perfection and beauty of these robots. Yet, the irony is that these so called perfect cyborgs really want to be us and want to be human. This science fiction theme harks back to Frankenstein and the creation of the powerful man that becomes a monster. In the end, it all seems to be a dangerous trap over vanity. We can't control the process of aging and we must recognize it's a process of life. Perhaps if we recover a greater appreciation for the stages of life we can avoid these futile attempts to play God that can consume our time and resources.
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