GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)

[David Morris]

>From: "Terrance F. Flaherty"
>[snip] I thought you meant
>GR context so I provided some examples, Dora, Herero
>genocide, Blicero, both as the embodiment of evil and
>perpetrator of evil, linking this to the the dehumanizing,
>denaturing evil cartels, and examples of good, Roger's Love
>and another example of evil, Pointy's control and
>destruction of Love. I also provided the antithesis of this
>metaphysical pornography, what God only knows, the mystery
>of Pirate's bananas.
>
> > >
> > >But in GR we have Blicero, isn't he evil? Not evil in the
> > >white hat black hat of a Pynchon's Progress. But Gottfied is
> > >going to be put in The Rocket 00000, encased in Imipolex
> > >G--a mystery plastic that in GR, consistently represents the
> > >apotheosis of a perverse chemical synthesizing that is not
> > >only unnatural but antinatural and is unequivocally and
> > >inextricably associated with the unhuman, antihuman, indeed
> > >dehumanizing of Humans denying their place as integral
> > >members of Nature. Gottfried, a human person, if he has a
> > >soul or spirit or whatever, he is a human person reduced to
> > >less than the mysterious plastic, as he is at that moment
> > >only part of the "Subimipolexity."
> >
> >
> > Q1.  Is Weissman Evil?
> > A1.  Was he evil when he met Enzian way back when?  Was he only preying 
>on
> > the young black child?
>
>Only Preying on a black child? Are you serious?

Don't be so jumpy.  What I'm saying here is that he was not "preying on a 
black child."  Both he and Enzian were in what seemed from the description 
to be in love.  He Weissman at his arrival to the Southland seems naive and 
full of wonder.  Somewhere between then and his new love, Gottfreid, he has 
transformed into a "pornography" as you call it.

> >
> > Q2.  What happened, changed, Weissman?  Is he only another son bound by 
>his
> > ancestry?  Was his initial innocence/purity only a genetic shell to be
> > discarded upon crysalilsis?
>
>Why is this important? Is there someone else responsible for
>his actions?

It's as relevant a question as asking if Slothrop is in control of his 
actions.  The question goes to ancestry and conditioning.

> > A2.  Was he "Evil" way back then?
>
>Again, why does this matter?

Somehow Weissman got from there to here.  Was he different then, or was he 
always what he is "now?"

David Morris

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