Creative Destruction

[Ian Livingston]

> "Creative destruction" is in the dustbin along with social Darwinism. With
> respect to hating the government, we can equate the Tea Party with al-Qaeda.

Yeah, I'll buy that. But do you how do you suppose that statement
pertains Pynchon's writings? Could he have the Tea Party in mind when
he wrote GR? M&D? Vineland? Of course not. Terrorism from the right,
though, certainly seems like a pertinent inquiry.

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Richard Fiero <rfiero at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ian Livingston wrote:
>>
>> I know nothing about this 'creative destruction' as a capitalist
>> compulsion, but it sounds like it might be a great way of rephrasing
>> early modernist European 'nihilism', as advocating the destruction of
>> haywire systems so that working ones might replace them. It was a
>> central tenet of early anarchism, especially as represented in
>> Dostoevsky, that all government is bad government. Is that, I wonder,
>> what is more pertinent in Pynchon?
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> . . .
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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