There is no danger of this machine going mad, it has been mad from the beginning and that's where its rationality comes from.
All societies are rational and irrational at the same time.
They are perforce rational in their mechanisms, their cogs and wheels, their connecting systems, and even by the place they assign to the irrational. Yet all this presuposes codes or axioms which are not the products of chance, but which are not intrinsically rational either. Underneath all reason lies delirium, drift. Everything is rational in capitalism, except capital or capitalism itself. The true story is the history of desire.