In Which Jung prewrites AtD's epigraph

[Bled Welder]

"Johnny wants a brain.Johnny wants to suck on a coke."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slKNd22GGaQ 

> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:07:09 -0700
> Subject: Re: In Which Jung prewrites AtD's epigraph
> From: igrlivingston at gmail.com
> To: fqmorris at gmail.com
> CC: brook7 at sover.net; pynchon-l at waste.org
> 
> > My focus is on our projecting our own pathology onto these
> > technologies as expressed in TRP's and his predecessors' fiction. Our
> > "roots" being apes that gained "sentience."
> 
> And none are more terrified of sentience than are Americans.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:58 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > As I said:  "Yes, the fear is valid.  But, transferring our pathology
> > onto overlord computers of the future says so much about our roots.
> > And I think Pynchon has this edge of culture central to his thinking."
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> >> http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_luddite.html
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> "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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