Back to AtD : Yashmeen

[Ian Livingston]

I'm inclined to reply to this with a finger pointing not to the moon, but
to Edward Abbey, who, in his late book, The Journey Home, included the
essay, "The Second Rape of the West," lobbing bombs at the electric power
industry as it chewed into the coal fields of the American West. With all
his homespun anarchist vitriol, he insightfully showed how cynically the
industrial giants carved their way through the hard-working ranches of
Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas, buying out whoever they could get for
cheap and threatening the rest, for very limited resource at an
astronomical profit.

I think Yashmeen's analogy is aptly applied in 'light' of Western-style
industry.

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Then a Pynchon-like but curious segue into a discussion of entropy and
> mathematical infinity.
> p.597 "entropy of a system"
>            Y:   "some sort of..... steam engine word, isn't it?
>
> Entropy, P's early obsession, appears here but with a difference? IDoes
> this steampunk-like joke
> contain a later P belief that 1) entropy sorta applies to the
> industrially-created world ...steam engine
> metaphor...or even Tesla's understanding that energy HAD to run
> out........if man-made from limited
> resources?
>
> And P's different belief in the universe, maybe---how so?---in ATD?
>



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"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
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