I don't think that she ever quite grasped the concept of the book. The Human Robot began in Mexico in 1973. I was then married to Virginia Christine Jolly, mother of Faera, then two years old. Chrissie struck up an acquaintance with Dr. James Clark Moloney, an elderly psychiatrist, who was our neighbor at La Giralda apartments in Guadalajara. Dr. Moloney introduced us to the concepts of the human robot.
Human robots are people who have become machines, as a result of their conditioning from infancy on.
Most of the horrors of modern time can be traced to their roots in the ways in which we abuse our children. The Manufacture of Human Robots . I can fairly say that the experience changed my life. I promised Dr. Moloney that I would try my best to bring his ideas to a greater audience. He warned us about the negative consequences of stirring the bitter mess of the mass psyche, but he ardently hoped that I would succeed where he had failed.