beyond the binary

[Otto]

----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Millison <millison at online-journalist.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 5:20 PM
Subject: beyond the binary
>

This text is anything but beyond the binary or free from the binaries, it's
a binary nightmare, relying exclusively on binaries, but not at all so
elegantly used as Master P does it.

> good and evil
> nature as opposed to human culture
> lakes and windmills
> clouds and cars
> horses and horsepower
> 'good' vs 'bad'
> light and dark shades
> pleasure and pain
> life and death
> health without sickness
> inside without outside
> up without down
> East and West
> the inner as the outer
> the male and the female
> yes and no

It's sorry that Wilber is pretending to explain something he clearly hasn't
understood, himself still within the binaries of all logocentric systems
including religions and esoterical systems. Contrary to Wilber Pynchon as a
postmodernist really is beyond this, making fun of it:

"In Ken Wilber's contemporary re-working of the Chain of Being, his model is
hierarchical and quaternal. He identifies 13 levels from lower to higher in
4 quadrants (Interior- & Exterior-Individual, and Interior- &
Exterior-Social). 'Nation-State' and 'Planetary' are levels 12 and 13 in the
Exterior-Social quadrant. s~Z"
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9801&msg=686&keywords=Wilber

Otto

Doug wrote:
>
> Not at odds with the worldview -- moving beyond the duality of binary
> systems, embracing good and evil -- that emerges from Pynchon's novels:
>
http://wilber.shambhala.com/html/books/boomeritis/wtc/part3.cfm/xid,8240159/
yid,
> 74733600
>