pynchon agnostic? II

[S.R. Prozak]

>     "Tell a girl: 'I love you'. No trouble with two-thirds of that,
>     it's a closed circuit. Just you and she. But that nasty
>     four-letter word in the middle, *that's* the one you have to
>     look out for. Ambiguity. Redundance. Irrelevance, even. Leakage.
>     All this is noise. Noise screws up your signal, makes for
>     disorganization in the circuit." (Saul in Pynchon's 'Entropy', 1960)
> 
> The "I" and the "you" aren't a problem here, and are differentiated prior to
> language.

This is noted in the Bhagvad-Gita, among other places.

However, it's currently trendy among liberal circles to blame every problem of the world on language, as it is a convenient explanation for problems that otherwise shatter our "Western" worldview.

Luckily, the smarter ones know it's not that simple.



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