Christianity and Pynchon

[Doug Millison]

Agreed re those gators and such, but you can't have slippery slope without
a peak, can you?   ;)

A-and, what's all that Pynchonian yearning about? Omega point, black hole
-- something "out there" is drawing us forward, or sucking us in, whether
we like it or not, whether we can name it or not...


This just in:

http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=815
Are You An Extropian Transhumanist?
Pacific News Service, Walter Truett Anderson, Jul 31, 2002
[...] a new movement variously called extropianism or transhumanism is
springing up around the world.  Its core belief is that the human species
can and should be improved in any way possible through the free development
and use of technology. Its chief opponents are the various movements and
groups who have taken the field against what they see as rampant and
unregulated technological progress. The Luddites and Greens say slow down;
extropians and transhumanists say full speed ahead. [...] Most people who
have become attracted to extropian-transhumanist ideas are young, male,
well-educated and libertarian in their politics, inclined to believe that
governments are more likely to hinder self-directed evolutionary progress
than to help it. But according to a recent analysis of the movement by
political scientist James J. Hughes at Trinity College in Connecticut,
transhumanists come from all over the political spectrum, ranging from
bleeding-heart socialists who think governments should take responsibility
for fair distribution of technology's benefits to neo-Nazis who yearn for a
state-supported 21st-century program of Hitlerian eugenics. [...]


At 10:20 AM -0700 8/2/02, Dave Monroe wrote:
>Point is, it's ALL the slippery slope, without any
>presumed peak/plateau/whatever at any presumed
>top/teleology/destiny/destination/whatever.  But there
>do seem to be all sorts of rocks 'n' rapids 'n' tigers
>'n' crocodiles 'n' whatever, er, "below" ...


Listening to Elie Siegmeister's "Sunday in Brooklyn", funny and surprising
music for piano written in 1946, it manages to fall apart but melodically
all the same ...