Back to AtD, Sorokin,as threatened

[Mark Kohut]

Yesterday, I mentioned The Crisis of Our Age, originally 1941, by one of the
leading first wave sociologists......
 
I'm not suggesting another TRP source, just some associative parallels, some
of which P musta come to believe from others we know he read--such as Weber
 
Or, perhaps better in this case, we might think....some historical/social theories and
truths he was led to by Historical Reality, as we presume Sorokin and other sociologists were.
 
in the Foreword, Sorokin speaks of a DOUBLE PROCESS (my caps ala Icelandic Spar)...
in lots of areas......(next post)
 
But here he precedes that by putting down a Key Pynchon theme....that pretty much only
in the 20th Century have the discoveries and innovations of science been "tied up with
their trend toward increasing destructiveness.." 
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