Pynchon's Winding Stair

[Joseph Tracy]

On Nov 28, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Joseph Tracy wrote:

>  That the reason "They" put so much effort into repression and lies  
> and into the mythology and practice of war is because they fear  
> such an awakening so often hinted at and attempted and to varying  
> degrees enacted in the post colonial revolutions and the humane  
> socialism  that emerged out of the great European wars or in Canada.

I just want to say that I believe and honor that the political aspect  
of revolutionay change is just one aspect of a deeper potential of a  
cultural and spiritual transformation.  The american revolution is  
seen as much and sometimes more in Melville,  Thoreau, Whitman,  
Malcolm X , Mark Twain, Little Richard, Zora Neale Hurston, Bob  
Dylan  and through the whole history of american letters,  arts,  
inventions, etc. as in the political vision and its mixed historic  
performance.

I also want to say that my comments about passivity are not directed  
at  any persons but arose principally out of an inner confrontation  
with this habit of mind.  So while I dislike the kind of passivity I  
am talking about,  I find it easier to be angry with than to change.