today's McLuhan - Pynchon synchronicity tidbit

[Jed Kelestron]

Self awareness is a dualistic oxymoron. 



On Aug 17, 2011, at 8:41 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Or you could say it is the indivisible totality. Depends on how you define self.
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> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nice.
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> 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> wrote:
>> '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
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>> 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....
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>> 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>
>> To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>> Cc:
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 6:41 PM
>> Subject: Re: today's McLuhan - Pynchon synchronicity tidbit
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>> 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> wrote:
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>> > poke of their internalized sensual life....he argues their
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