1945

[Terrance]

jbor wrote:

> The three dates mentioned on p 81 are 1945, 1943 and 1935. I'm not sure what
> your example is here.

At some point I would like to return to your comments on
Nihilism and Perspectivism and get to my Nietzsche,
Nihilism, Patriarchs, And Pynchon's Virgins, but this will
keep us busy for a while. 

On page 81 we have the date, the year 1945. Before I explain
the example, I want to set up the outline I have here, this
will take some time, I appreciate your interest and ask for
your patience. My post was jumbled and scrambled, but I will
clean it up as I have it here, one step at a time. 

Step one:

 
1. the date
a. "Maybe because this is 1945." This is the date we want,
the year, "By 1945, the factory system - which, more than
any piece of machinery, was the real and major    result of
the Industrial Revolution..." OKL
2. War
a. "It was widely believed in those days that behind the War
(P's Capitalization)--all the death, savagery, and
destruction--lay the Fuher-principle."
b. "that there should be no room for a terrible disease like
charisma..." ( charisma here is Weber's sociological term,
it refers to the quality of leadership that appeals to
non-rational motives)
3. Postwar hopes (note that these are postwar (lower case
U.S. president-elect) and not postWar (buried under the Big
W)
a. "But if personalities could be replaced by abstractions
of power"
b. "if techniques developed by the corporations could be
brought to bear"
c. "might not nations live rationally?" 
d. rationalization should proceed while we had the time and
resources...." (P's leipein)
e. Slothrop's past and future

step two: 

Let's clear this off the table. One Holocaust with a Capital
H. 


> No it isn't. The Holocaust was what it was, and these others were what they
> were, as Ken McVay responded recently...


OK, I can agree, no problem at all. 

Any problems? Comments, jumbles, scrambles?