Sorta Pynchon relevant in a 'crazy' roundabout way. Or another Kute Kohut irrelevancy.

[Ian Livingston]

End Times for the deities?

Good Times, indeed.

On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 4:46 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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