On anthropological architecture in

[kelber at mindspring.com]

Anthropological Architecture -- a good description.  The type of stuff that the Hippie-Counterculture folks were ineptly trying to rebel against -- even as they were co-opted by THEM.  How do you rebel against an ethos?  Where do you send the petitions?  Perhaps the only rebellion possible is what Oedipa's doing:  trying to merely understand the nature of the magic that keeps her locked in her tower. Knowledge (and self-knowledge) is the way out. Sort of in the same way that Alice goes through the looking glass.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>

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>Been ruminating on Laura's question: "Who are They in "C of L49"?"
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>From the other side of the world, so to speak, from a non-fiction book
>as different from C of L49 as is any; the book is The Man Who Loved China,
>about Joseph Needham, self-taught China expert/historian/more. 
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>It is the late 1930s and Joseph Needham, star Cambridge scientist who has taught himself 
>Chinese and is already 'in love" with the country is there for the first time. The author
>sums up Needham's first general perceptions:
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>"They [those ancients thru the present who had created China] had created the very special circumstances
>---icy self-assurance, isolation, a sustained attitude of hauteur---that had made China seem so separate from
>the other [countries]. They had created the 'anthropological architecture' that, in short had made China China." 
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>So, what is the anthropological architecture in Tower America as C of L 49 begins?..."money-grubbing materialism", "sustained hustle and boosterism", science-honoring forgetting of its past, its history?, repression of
>its Shadow? 
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>And stuff like that? 
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