In Which Jung prewrites AtD's epigraph

[Joseph Tracy]

On Mar 15, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Ian Livingston wrote:

>> 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."
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> And none are more terrified of sentience than are Americans.

Ok. Maybe I'm an easy laugh. But that's funny.
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> 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."
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>> 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
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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