GRGR3: Discussion Opener for Section 3

[David Andignac]

> > 2)  Why is TRP including all this spiritualist, voodoo shit?
> 
 
> > 7)  "It's control. All these things arise from one difficulty: control"
> >     (30.26) "the Invisible Hand" (30.30) Is this a major policy in
> >     GR's manifestoor just a throwaway introduced merely to set up a
> >     sneer at psychology or 'uspenskian nonsense'? (30.31).
> 
> I don't think GR sneers at it. The major interest of GR in psychology
> and parapsychology is not really to investigate their claims, but to
> explore the purposes that they are put to use by Them. Who needs an
> invisible hand when everyone refuses to see the clearly visible one?
> 'Visibility' is not a property of the object alone, but also that of the
> subject, who may or may not be trying to see and who may or may not be
> capable of seeing and the conditions may or may not be conducive to
> seeing.

I always understood the interest in parapsychology as being part of
"getting beyond the zero" - beyond the digital yes and no of experience and
into the areas between adn outside, if that makes any sense. 

I also think that Pynchon is exploring not just how They use psychology and
parapsychology, but how We use it to come to grips with the world around
us. I've read many pieces about how traditional faith (mainly religious) is
being replaced in culture to some extent by the rise of urban legends and
other types of modern mythology. Their are cults who believe the aliens ARE
coming and bringing salvation.  I think that Pynchon does explore this both
in GR and in other works.

Finnally, isn't the Invisible Hand a famous business theory, concerning the
development of markets in the economy?

David A.