globalization & Pynchon?

[calbert at tiac.net]

Jane:

> Isn't one of the messages of GR and M&D and V.
> and VL, that the paranoid belief that the Rocket or Firm 
> has a life of its own is not much better than the
> Cartel/Firm's arrogant belief that it  can conquer the Earth
> and break free of Gravity?   

Pass this bieaaaaaaatch the dutchy, will ya......

once again Re: Chauncey Wright  per Louis Menand (on whom I 
think I am developing quite the crush)

"His favorite illustration was the weather. Everyone believes that the 
weather is purely a product of physical cause and effect, but no one 
can predict it with certainty. 'Unlike planetary perturbations, the 
weather makes the most reckless excursions from its averages, and 
obscures them by a most inconsistent and incalculable fickleness.' 
Wright maintained in one of the first articles he ever published, 'The 
Winds and the Weather', in 1858. We accept this state of affairs 
about the weather - that it is a perfectly lawful, rather mundane 
phenomenon whose complexity nevertheless vastly exceeds our 
ability to understand it - and yet we freely pontificate about the 
causes of human unhappiness and the future progress of society, 
things determined by factors presumably many times more complex 
than the weather."

love,
cfa