today's McLuhan - Pynchon synchronicity tidbit

[Keith Davis]

Nice.

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Jed Kelestron <jedkelestron at gmail.com>wrote:

> Self awareness is a byproduct of thinking created by the ego to give rise
> to the illusion of a separate self distinct from the indivisible totality
> for the amusement of the indivisible totality.
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> On Aug 17, 2011, at 7:34 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> If you think of self-awareness, you remove yourself from self-awareness, as
> self-awareness is prior to thinking.
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> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Mark Kohut < <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> 'Self-consciousness of the causes and limits of one's own culture
>> seems to threaten the ego structure and is to be avoided"--
>>                                 --M. McLuhan 1962-4
>>
>> Another book important to the TRP of Gravity's Rainbow, Life Against
>> Death is one of McLuhan's recommended readings.
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>> There have been maybe 10-15 citations of Lewis Mumford, esp The City in
>> History
>>  in the first hundred pages....
>>
>> and McLuhan, a Canadian and convert to Roman Catholicism actually uses
>> a Pentecostal metaphor when he writes of computers being able to instantly
>> translate
>> between languages...'\"the computer, is short, promises by technology a
>> Pentecostal
>> condition of universal understanding and unity"---p. 80 Understanding
>> Media
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Jed Kelestron < <jedkelestron at gmail.com>jedkelestron at gmail.com>
>> To: Mark Kohut < <markekohut at yahoo.com>markekohut at yahoo.com>
>> Cc:
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 6:41 PM
>> Subject: Re: today's McLuhan - Pynchon synchronicity tidbit
>>
>> Literate people think self awareness is a good thing.
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>> On Aug 17, 2011, at 3:54 PM, Mark Kohut < <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>> markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> > poke of their internalized sensual life....he argues their
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