I <3, <3<3<3, fitting things into parallel constructions and generational cycles, maybe discount for that.

All those things had ideologies attached but had a lot to do with the attempt to deal with war trauma - shrapnel and burns in WWI, “battle fatigue” (or was it still “shell shock”?) in WWII, survivable amputations in Vietnam.

Remember the Six-Million-Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman? That was the contemporary mythologization.

So give it a while, let transhumanism and cyborg feminism and all that percolate and polish until they’re intelligible for public consumption, meanwhile let all the VA money from Iraq II (signature wound IED damage that rips out the whole undercarriage) bang into the DARPA money for drones and exoskeletons and telepresence…

As the opening line of my favorite novel put it, “In five years, the penis will be obsolete.”