Pynchon's RC Sources

[Terri]

Paul Mackin wrote:
> 
> Nicely composed post, T. Points up the important demarcation in mankind's
> consciousness--prehistory vs history. Ahead even of modern vs postmodern I'd
> bet you would agree. :-)
>             P.

"I'll agree to anything, just don't take my honey." 

			Pooh, Zen and the art of eating 

There is an Editorial in the WSJ on the Fed that you might
like  to read. 



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In the hands of these scholars, the story was relatively
light on value-judgments, though not entirely free of them.
>From them, however, the story passed to cranks of genius
like Robert Graves, to archaeologists turned cranks like
Marija Gimbutas, and to lumpen-feminists and peddlers of
newage. (Also to another Swiss-German
crank-with-credentials, Carl Jung; but that fascinating limb
of the tree of nonsense will be saved for another time.) It
became very definitely ideological and mythical, an account
of why the world is so bad and how it may yet be saved. The
Minoans now became the most spectacular flowering of an
aboriginal, peaceful, earth-friendly, Goddess-centered
matriarchy extending across Europe and the Near East.
(Africa, even North Africa, is almost never mentioned, nor
anywhere east of the Euphrates.) All went Edenically for
millenia until disaster struck, in the form of horse-riding,
cattle-rustling, patriarchal, sky-god-worshiping, warlike,
Indo-European-speaking nomads who, someplace out in the
wilds of central Asia, had gotten completely deranged and
lost touch with everything valuable. Having burned down the
original civilization, they forgot about it completely,
except for myths about their gods killing monsters. Exit the
Goddess and her worshipers, except for secret mystical
traditions; enter the violent and
unhappy world we know to this day. Now, through great good
fortune, the Goddess has been rediscovered, and not a moment
too soon to keep  patriarchy from destroying the planet.

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