Trust-Love, Paranoia-Chaos, Leni

[Henry Musikar]

How about that Leni Pokler? I think that Leni is Slothrop, 
with a child substituted for the phallus/purpose of technology. 
Married to a technologist, she doesn't really understand science, but 
still maps science onto her experiential, emotional life. Thats what 
most of us do. I have to trust the explanations of mathematicians and 
scientists (or not) if I want to deal with technology. Don't know 
about other listers, but I can't follow the chaos math people except 
when they use a metaphor (heard a meteorologist use the "birds 
flapping changing the weather" illustration on the radio today). 

And yet I believe many things that I haven't seen. I believe that men 
have walked on the moon. A-& how many of can provide a truly 
convincing argument that the Earth is round? 

Paranoia should not be equated with conspiracy theories. If you 
believe that the government/industry is up to dirty trick, it isn't 
even paranoia if you mistakenly believe that they have tapped your 
phone. It becomes paranoid when you believe that your family 
(B.S., for instance) or many (seemingly) random acquaintances (too 
many in GR to mention) are "in on it." One of the first things that 
drew me to GR/TRP is what seems to me to be a personal understanding 
of paranoia. Why didn't anyone ask the Chrissie/Jules if they thought 
that the Pynch is or has ever been a genuine paranoid? Paranoia is 
more than believing that everything is connected; it's very 
self-centered, giving the paranoid a singularity in spite of the web 
of connections, a bright spot (perhaps destined for extinction) 
surrounded by Their grey. 

Ramble on!

AsB4,
Henry Musikar
(-::-)
Keep cool, but care. -- TRP
Moderation in moderation. -- Husky Mariner
DON'T PANIC! -- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
What, me worry? -- A. E. Newman