Pynchon & Math (Aristotle vs. Plato)

[alice wellintown]

"the solution to our disenchantment can be found in neither political
struggle nor paranoia."

Seems about right.

Those who fight the system will lose, and those who try to change it
will be co-opted.

So now what?

Pynchon celebrates preterition, the act of being disinherited or
passed over. In a clever inversion of Calvinist theology, Pynchon
suggests that preterites, the forgotten refuse of society, are the
fortunate few who have received a kind of grace. They are the
blessedly forsaken. Embracing the apolitical, preterites enjoy an
invisibility that Pynchon believes is necessary to attain a modicum of
freedom in late modernity.

Yup!  This seems right on the mark


On 1/28/13, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> Claim A
> "totalitarianism, albeit in a subtler form, has permeated Western
> democracies since the mid-twentieth century"
>
> AND
>
> Claim B
>
> "capitalism, in collaboration with the automatizing forces of
> technology, has become the new totalizing ideology with which human
> beings must contend."
>
> Yes, both claims, be they true or not, are made in GR, if not in the
> texts that follow GR.
>