Pynchon's back catalogue

[Campbel Morgan]

TED is cool.
Pinker on Violence. History teaches us to study genocide amd mass
murder and war and violence. Don't know why. The old, so we don't
repeat it doesn't hold water. Maybe we should study the history of
peace and the myth of violence.

http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violence.html


On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:29 PM, rich<richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Tore Rye Andersen<torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> If my idea of a "World Historical Project" is Eurocentric,
>> it is because the world's history of the past couple-three hundred years has, sad
>> to say, largely been dictated by old, corrupted Yurrup, and in the 20th century by
>> America. Those historical cusps may have originated in Europe, but they have had
>> major consequences for the rest of the world, as I'm sure you wouldn't deny.
>> Those three novels primarily describe the march of Modernity and what it has
>> been doing to the globe (and what it has forced out of existence). A-and where
>> would you say Modernity originates? Look it up, it's in the history books.
> _____
> where does the Japanese co-prosperity sphere fit in--unless you
> consider Japan being a westernized country in the early 20th century
> which I argue it wasn't. not disagreeing mind you, about the
> infection's origins and the awful scale of waste and destruction and
> horror
>
> Rich
>