Decadence in AtD

[Richard Fiero]

Does the term "yo-yoing" ring a bell?  Different from say a Newtonian 
understanding of cause and effect producing a linearly understandable 
capital "H" History.
 From the abstract for SCHETZINA, CATHY ANNE.  The Quest for the 
Mechanical Muse: Thomas Pynchon and Science.
" . . . a call for intellectual revolution on a grand scale, as 
Pynchon takes aim at the Western world's all-pervasive faith in the 
scientific enterprise, made dominant during the Enlightenment, which 
he associates with a blind reliance on binary oppositions, belief in 
cause-and-effect and faith in reason."
Okay, so it's not science but officially sanctioned history which is 
(re)written.