Somewhat NP Argentinians bound for Germany

[jporter]

> From: Dave Monroe <monroe at mpm.edu>


> think it undeniable that Pynchon had atken no small notice of the traces of
> the
> Reich in our own rocketry, weapons programs, starting (but by no means limited
> to) the 'intellectual reparations" the Allies claimed in Operation Paperclip
> .... where are those Nazis?  Well, they start of in WWII there, and end up at
> NASA, apparently ...

I have no problem with ex-Nazi scientists within our own rocketry/weapons
program. Neither, apparently, did those people who sat on the tip of those
huge, muscular and powerful Saturn rockets that lifted them- against all the
earth's best efforts- to the moon. They wanted the rockets to work, after
all.

The nazi scientists were good at that.

The moral of the story is that there is no moral. Facts are neutral. Any
judgement of good or evil is, by definition, relative, because it is
necessarily based on incomplete knowledge. This seems inhuman, or
anti-human. It would be nice- comforting- to have an absolute, an edge, a
boundary, a base, a foundation from which a complete moral understanding of
our dilemma, and guide for our future actions could be dependably
constructed. But such is the stuff of wistful pipe dreams- of those earnest
fellows with "the future in their bones," as much as, by the Luddites, as
much as by Pointsman.

It is an extension of the paradox of causality and randomness. Prior
conditions can never be completely specified. Shit happens, ja? and no one
can say exactly why, how or when. This was discovered on the smallest scale
by another nazi scientist and championed by his jewish mentor, much to the
bedevilment of Einstein.

The truth is there is no truth, but some lies are better than others.

jody