Von Braun

[Cometman]

--- Henry wrote:

> FWIW, I don't think that my readings of TRP in general, and GR in
> particular, lead me to believe that TRP thinks otherwise, but your
> mileage
> may vary, particularly if you are so deconstructioanal as to suggest
> that
> intent cannot be known, and is therefore irrelevant.  

Hmm - seems like some meaty exploration available of the 
truth table for that dual proposition?
part 1) Intent cannot be known    
part 2) Therefore it is irrelevant
Please see my 347-page paper, "The Defense of
the Postmodern, as Performed by the residents of
Ward 6B under the direction of Dr Benway" for
a development of this theme, with 4-color illustrations
and circles and arrows.

However,
what clobbered me about GR 
(ok, ONE of the things that...)
was the notion of IG Farben and the extrapolation, right
in the text, of what it entailed. 
  
I had already been exposed to some of the 
"merchants of death" propaganda - fine stuff - but
the fullness of the villainy of the schemata in GR,
seemed to me to render statements such as "we won the War"
-- "we" (ie, who, after all is "we" - perhaps 
the shareholders of IG Farben?) 
-- "won" (in the sense of "profited from"?)
-- "the War" (which was actually an orchestrated maneuver
to maximize profit) 
- I say, I say, what clobbered me
about GR was that it made such statements seem,
well, in fact, rather naive...



       
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