Is Pynchon antirationalist? (part 7)

[R. Fiero]

o j m wrote:
>  . . .
>More later, when I catch my breath, on what, exactly, 
>"pragmatic fallibilism" is--and why it and the epistemology 
>generated from it are different and, in my view, better 
>alternatives, than poststructuralism.
>
>best,
>O.

Nice reading.  Is pragmatic fallibism like bounded rationality?

"The Great Game is rotten through and through. Spies spy on 
spies spying on spies, and none of it produces intelligence 
that those in power will ever use, or even want to hear. These 
spy wars are a sideshow, which have no real impact on our 
significant security interests over the years, carried out by 
careerist bureaucrats who have managed to deceive several 
generations of the American public about the necessity and the 
value of their work. ... The information our vast espionage 
network acquires at considerable human and ethical costs is 
generally insignificant or irrelevant to our policy makers' 
needs. Our espionage establishment differs hardly at all from 
many other Federal bureaucracies, having transformed itself 
into a self-serving interest group, immeasurably aided by secrecy."
-- Aldrich Ames quoted in IDENTIFYING THE TRAITOR AMONG US: THE 
RHETORIC OF ESPIONAGE AND SECRECY
Karen M. Taylor, PhD
University of Pittsburgh, 2003
<http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-07282003-132723/unrestricted/karentdiss.pdf>http<http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-07282003-132723/unrestricted/karentdiss.pdf>://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-07282003-132723/unrestricted/karentdiss.pdf