From W.A.S.T.E. on FB. With my response. Have at it. Should be interesting.

[Mark Kohut]

Yeah, a great quote comeback leading into further Pynchon discussion, I
hope.

 How much is P's expressed anti-rationalism [correct characterization?],
anti-rationalization as used by Weber, esp in the current section--as
interpreted or over-interpreted by some, maybe me--a foray into.......some
kind of irrationality without guidelines.I mean, is some kind of nod to
anti-overrationalism, irrational?
Many modernists before his time--Pound, Yeats, Eliot, there are others--had
deep problems with expressing 'answers'--if even needed--to their
presentations of ordered rationality being destructive.




On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Another discovery was that authoritarians tended to distrust science..."
>
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/how-world-war-ii-scientists-invented-a-data-driven-approach-to-fighting-fascism/
>>
>> Mark Kohut <https://www.facebook.com/mark.kohut.1?fref=ufi> "human
>> character can be measured the same way the temper of a dog can be
>> measured"...'scientific rationality"-----just another variation on the
>> disease so viciously, rightly, righteously, deeply satirized by Pynchon in
>> Gravity's Rainbow--and one of his most profound depth charges against
>> America's, the West's, culture of slouching toward death.
>>
>
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