Mondaugen's_Law

[Mike Weaver]

I wrote: 
>> Mondaugen's law (from memory): Personal density is
>directly proportional to temporal bandwidth.
>> 
>> This IMO is Pynchon's direct challenge to the whole
>> Be Here Now mentality.[snip]

David Morris counters:
>I disagree. Try this one on:
>(230.30) "I would set you free, if I knew how.  But it
>isn't free out there. [snip] I can't even give you
>hope that it will be different someday - that They'll
>come out, and forget death, and loses Their
>technology's elaborate terror, and stop using every
>form of life without mercy to keep what haunts men
>down to a tolerable level - and be like you instead,
>simply here, simply alive...."

So I parlay:
"I can't even give you
hope that it will be different someday..."

Even if he could, how do we survive until that utopian time?  
It's the old difference between drop-out and revolutionary attitudes, that
you can change things by being, on an individual level, utterly pre-cursive
as opposed to finding strategies of engaging with and subverting Their
hegemony, which IMO takes as much temporal bandwidth/personal density as we
can muster. 
Somewhere in his Prison Notebooks, Gramsci made the point that the myth of
grace from which humanity has fallen is a collective yearning for a
desireable future justified by casting it into the long lost past (I
paraphrase).