Misc. related to AtD, or Pynchon at one or two degrees, maybe?

[Mark Kohut]

 In his book, Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson talks about the way that nations are socially constructed imaginary worlds, in spite of all their inconsistencies. ----guy named
  john Freeman.
   
  The world is the way it is and it is the best of all possible worlds'-------Dr. Pangloss in Candide....
   
  A witty psychologist, who has written Stumbling on Happiness, does a nice riff on THE SENTENCE that all ambitious Psychologists want to write---and get remembered forever for
  when they turn out to be wrong, such as Man is THE ONLY language-using animal, etc.......
   
  he offers his: Man is the only animal who can plan for a (distant) future.............................
  because he is the only animal who can understand 'the future"........
   
  Which reminds me of the Future in AtD..........(which is ALL F**ked UP to say almost nothing)................................ by humans, it seems, the only animals, etc.......

       
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