Sorta Pynchon relevant in a 'crazy' roundabout way. Or another Kute Kohut irrelevancy.
Mark Kohut
mark.kohut at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 06:45:49 CST 2019
We have talked about Pynchon's vison of history as we have some of the
best books on him re that. .
We have talked about how he seems to subvert, diss, linear eschatologies of
history...The Western world's way.
How maybe some cyclical ideas of history appear....how Something from the
East keeps coming into his fiction.
The East has a different sense--or senses-- of History, all historians seem
to say.
We have also talked about his critique of State imperial power, thru its
effects on the colonized, at least.
Well, in this book related to international law that I am reading, the
writer argues this: the monotheistic religions
(mostly of the West) are imperialistic analogously because they roll up
multiple gods into One--colonize them so to metaphorize
and add a linear eschatology of History to it because they roll up time's
conceptual varieties similarly into the End Times.
Good Times.
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