The pessimism of TSI

[ish mailian]

No. It is a positive story. An admonishment sure, but a positive story
about how not to go about integration. The boys integrate a robot, a
toy, not a boy, not a man, not a family, but an idea, an imagined
experience they build from junk yard parts and what the parents toss
away, reject, the Jazz man and the childless family that blockbusts.
They make it, this floundering counterculture,  a  problem to be
solved.

Integration must be real not imagined. It is not a problem to be
solved. Hence the pun on the mathematics and, as is so often in P, the
failure of math and science to solve what are not problems in need of
solutions that can be tested and checked and made a method, a system.



On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 6:38 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> TRP, capturing the endemic pattern of American racism, among regular middle class Americans even in a northern state--where integration can only be secretly imaginary--presages his deep view of human inequality by skin color alone to emerge fully seen in M&D.
> Discuss.
>
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