MDMD(2): Deflation and Friendship flip-flop

[andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk]

Thomas Vieth writes:
> WRT Andrew's remarks on the occult:

> I think you're on the wrong track there. My view is that TRP is using it 
> for its face value; that is, for is dichotomy of nature and its 
> irrationality and technocracy and its rationality. Again - we had a 
> similar thread before, remember - I feel what he is telling us is to 
> overcome this epistemological dichotomy. He takes both sides serious and 
> seems to tell us that when we only take one side serious we're in 
> trouble.

I don't believe that Pynchon is for one minute suggesting that we
would be better off conducting our affairs on the basis of astrology
rather than, say, physics. Look what that did for Himmler and
Hitler. But he *is* telling us that there is nothing forcing us to use
physics in place of astrology other than our desire to use one or the
other. The world does not force either upon us, we choose to apply one
or other (or both) system(s) to the world for our own good reasons -
`good' here being something we (individually and collectively - and
there is yet another tension we have to resolve) determine the sense
of.


Andrew Dinn
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We drank the blood of our enemies.
The blood of our friends, we cherished.