Discussion opener for GRGR(4) (church and hospital)

[Bill Burns]

>The point (I gather) is to try to think our way out of binarisms, such that
>chaos can be perceived as potentially constructive ... transformation
>rather than extinction...?
>
I agree. Pynchon so often sets up these oppositions, then slips hints of
other possibilities in at the periphery. Our tendency to lapse into this
all-or-nothing logic reduces the complexities of experience into simple,
manipulable dualities. Note that the US media (and other agencies, I'm sure)
tend to reduce most discussion to dualities. Noam Chomsky wrote a few
pamphlets concerning this issue during the Gulf War--how the media reduced
the discussion to how and when the international community should act and
excluded discussion outside or in between these possibilities.

Bill Burns
WDBurns at micron.net
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