New Year Resolutions
Illustration★★★WHEREAS, the key words of our Age are speed, automation and electronics, and WHEREAS, the key words of our Age are also violence and moral chaos, and WHEREAS, man is apparently willing to abide by the absolute judgment of the computer, NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that there be fed into the computer the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount, and BE IT ALSO RESOLVED, that when in doubt about the just application of human knowledge, private or public, man be required to press a button marked MORAL DECISION, and BE IT ALSO RESOLVED, that the decision of the computer be irrevocable and binding upon all men.
— Levenson
The point
Satirical resolution proposing to feed the Ten Commandments and Sermon on the Mount into a computer to solve modern problems of violence and chaos.