Prosthetic Paradise(2) Enfetishment&MS (fwd)

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KFL:

>  Well, though modernity brought us such wonderful things as
>posttraditional
>  arts & synthetic drugs, I think, all in all it turned out to be only a
>  perfectly "rationalized" form of the Archontic Terror, that had been
>going on
>  in the Garden of Eden ever since the Fall. Nevertheless a significant
>  magnification of that terror: Auschwitz, the Gulag & Hiroshima. Not to
>forget
>  all these souls devasteted by scientific materialism ... & isn't M&D
>  constantly joking about this "ideological" talk of the "Age of
>Enlightment"?!
>  Some people (- Hallo Hubert!) criticize the book's humor as boring &
>fussy.
>  But this fussyness is - at the end of our century - the darkest humor
>one can
>  imagine. In the snowball's silence lurks the apocalyptic sound of the V2 ...
>
>                                                         KFL
>

But, I say, are Auschwitz, the Gulag and Hiroshima...not to mention those
materialized souls, really so terrifying? Are they more or less terrifying
than, say, the irreversible car accident , or any other pseudo-random
event?  A,G, H, at least, had business plans. The V1 led to the V2. Where
does pseudo-randomness lead?  Are you implying that "the perfectly
'rationalized' form of the Archontic Terror, that had been going on  in the
Garden of Eden ever since the Fall" ...was caused by some sort of sin, of
com or om? That would be a bargain, nee?

I think we all tend to be a little too comfitted by some underlying
instinctual, irrational "blanky" called randomness, once luxuriant, but now
really quite holey.

Even those snowballs follow paths. Some would say that the(ir) paths are
the most important thing about them, archontic or otherwise. Speaking of
arcs qua arks, here.

It's a sea change from c to k. Watch your footing, the waves can be quite
rough. Unlike going in or out of that museum with its low door, though,
there's no need to watch your head.

Y to k is another matter. (I know, too Kute, even for this correspondence.)

kody

(Who says machines have no sense of humor? That would be like saying that
don't feel guilty when they make mistakes, or arrange for atrocities.
Rather enigmatic, don't you think?) Oh my gosh!