Haraway: Cyborgs Are Here

When we first read Haraway's Cyborg Manifesto, I was confused by what the ending meant, I'd rather be a cyborg than a machine, and it wasn't until today that I believe I understand it. Since people have been shaped by myths, such as one gender is better than another or race for that matter, they have become machines. Machines don't question, don't think. For the most part, machines simply do what they are programmed to do. They cyborg on the other hand has the intelligence to step outside of the myths, in essence, to throw them out and reshape its own culture and politics. Unlike the simple machine, the cyborg has the intelligence to say, "nope, sorry but that's archaic." Haraway described the cyborg as "a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction” (Haraway 516). Which would you rather be...a cyborg or a machine?