Pragmatism & Amerikkka Uber Alles

[Terrance]

Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> A powerful concept of sociology as used by MOX VAY-BEAR (Max
> Weber). Simply a more efficient way of doing things. Can be conscious or
> unconscious and be applied to any field of human endeavor: science,
> religion, language, even, you guessed it, SPIRITUALISM (a better seating
> arrangement around the seance table for example). Though not a wholely
> zero sum game the improvements in performance are more often than not
> accompanied by losses in traditional values and alienation. An important
> concept in understanding Pynchon one might say.
> 
>                         P.


One of the biggys.