Big Walt wrote: <<I think this was one of the themes -- the tossing away of things no longer useful -- and making a disgusting show of it (certainly relevant, given the popularity of disgusting shows in US TV like Fear Factor, adn the WWF).>>
My take on it was the robots weren't destroyed because they were no longer useful but because they were a threat to replace the humans, that the humans were destroying them to regain their power. Dunno. I was stumped. Lindsay