Labour Saving Machinary

"There is the tragedy and despair of all machinery laid bare. Unlike art which is content to create a new secondary world in the mind, it attempts to actualize desire, and so to create power in this World; and that cannot really be done with any real satisfaction. Labour-saving machinery only creates endless and worse labour...I will forgive Mordor-gadgets some of their sins, if they will bring [this letter] quickly to you..."

J.R.R. Tolkien, in a letter to his son Christopher, 7 July 1944.