hag at iafrica reply to entropy (fwd)

[David L. Pelovitz]

From: Andrew Dinn <andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk>
>OUTRSPACIA at aol.com writes:

>[examples of the death-obsessed deleted]
>
>> This list goes on, even to include words in the passage you suggested, for
>> instance these about a new birth: "a hood of smell ... human 
>> consciousness, that poor cripple, 
>> that deformed and doomed thing, is about to be born . . ." or "It is our
>> mission to promote death. The way we kill, the way we die, being 
>> unique among the Creatures. It was something we had to work on, 
>> historically and personally. To build from scratch up to its present 
>> status as reaction, nearly as strong as life, holding down the green 
>> uprising. . . ." 
>
>
>You missed out the key line which ends this key passage:
>
>  A few keep going over to the titans every day...
>
>The death-system, the control-system, is not all-pervasive. It leaks.
>It could not do otherwise. To this cynic that constitutes upbeat.

Exactly.  For me TRP is not about the death-obsessed universe otr its
failure to be all-pervasive as much as it is about the failure
of any monolithic away of thinking to account for a universe that
infinitely varied.  If that means I believe that TRP is showing
informational entropy being used in counterbalance to thermodynamic
entropy, I suppose I do.  But I believe that is just one of many
bipolar oppoositions which serve to show that the universe in
its entirety when defined through bipolar oppositions.
			
David Pelovitz - dqp5805 at is.nyu.edu