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

[Mark Kohut]

Or is it ALL in THE USE that is made of science?


Whatever I think of 'science' I know I have a projective bias
against testing human beings. Not least and surely overgeneralized by
me---it is akin
to what they say of torture: how do you know you're learning truths ABOUT
REAL LIFE.

Or more benignly, doesn't the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle apply pretty
fully, metaphorically speaking?

On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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