Thanks and "you say you want a revolution"--Beatles

[Mark Kohut]

Laura,
   
  Thank you...clear, clean, concise and clever postings. 
   
  major parts of this book make one rethink one's initial feelings when one has a 'revision' of original perceptions. Here, that was mcTaggart for me...whom I saw thru establishment eyes
  and now think was stupid about therefore....Pynchon sees him differently (in AtD), I now think....
   
  So, maybe I need to revise some other attitudes to the maths section, the math characters.
  Relearning that McTaggart was a kind of Hegelian, I remember this:"that most of Hegel's arguments come down to puns on the word 'is.'"-----which certainly applies to McT's notions of time...and was uttered by "Mad Dog" Russell, whom I thought was thoruoghly dissed by
  OBA.......still thinkin'
   
  O well, next read, best read.
   
  And given the "revolutionary" section you hosted, I stumbled upon this by Trotsky, we all remember him, who according to Andre Breton co-authored the Surrealist Mnifesto with him---and, of course, surrealism was a mind-chaging discovery by OBA, he wrote in 'Slow Learner":  
   
  Trotsky:  "f the revolution in the interests of developing material production is obliged to set up a centralized, socialist system, so must it at the same time, and from the very first, establish and assure an anarchistic regime of intellectual freedom".....
   
   
   
   
  , 

       
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