Scribes, the name even suggests it from latin :)
he is simply using a paradox to symbolize that technology controls society.
In the 1962 book Silent Spring, Carson wrote how pesticides killed everything and should be called biocides because of that. Even though she had her worries about acute pesticide poisoning, she was really alarmed about slow pesticide poisoning of everything, like humans and plants. Her intentions on the book were to educate people about pesticide risks, trying to transform the "myth" of pesticides into reality for the masses.
It is a spoken curse that people would speak out of their mouth. It is a curse paragraph.
Nelson Mandela is famous for being a civil rights activist for South Africans. Black lives matter is a movement about rights for all Blacks. Both stand for black rights, though Nelson Mandela was standing up for a specific group of black.