Big Bang?

[John Carvill]

>David Casseres wrote:

> It is monstrous that the antiscience movement has gathered so much
> momentum that it shows up, in its most destructive form, on the
> Pynchon list of all places.  The attack on science is an attack on
> humanity, by way of attacking one of humanity's highest achievements.
> As well attack literature itself, or philosophy, or music, or any of
> the arts.  I fear for the culture that gave me birth, education, and a
> lifetime of experience.


This about sums it up. It's upsetting, depressing, mystifying,
angry-making, etc. to read about schools shoe-horning Creationism/ID
into the syllabus, but to find it creeping into the Pynchon list?  It's
one of those jarring experiences that's so affecting because so
unexpected, like a little old lady swearing at you on the bus.

Grim times............




 

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