social psychology of the p-list

[Paul Mackin]

On Aug 1, 2006, at 10:50 AM, Otto Sell wrote:

> In case you hadn't noticed that's been the life of most Europeans  
> during WW 2!


Very true. My point was, we choose the nightmares of literature, but  
not those of everyday life.

Similarly, we can quite handily chose to reject the old "honest  
consciousness" in the course of our adventures on the  p-list, which  
we retain the power to shut off at any time, but still yearn for a  
fairly ordered life  within the circle of,  say,  our wives,  
husbands, children, significant others.  Beings we can't so readily  
walk away from even for a short rest.

It's an important distinction to keep in mind, IMHO.




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> 2006/8/1, Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net>:
>>
>> On Aug 1, 2006, at 9:49 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:
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>> > I'm under the impression that Those Pynchonian Texts
>> > say otherwise ...
>>
>>
>> Pynchonian texts will hopefully never be anyone's everyday life,
>>
>> In case you hadn't noticed GR is a friggin nightmare.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> > --- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >> do we want to live in happyville or pain city?
>> >>
>> >> in our everyday lives, we will 99 times out of 100
>> >> choose happyville....
>> >