P & Teilhard ----goes out for Ish

[ish mailian]

A Jesuit AND a Scientist. And, as he makes an appearance in GR, and as
Jesuits are important to Pynchon's novels and as his ideas influenced
many of P's generation, including, of course, Don DeLillo (_Point
Omega_), note that the title of DD's novel reverses a concept known as
the Omega Point, much as Pynchon reverses Teilhard's Return in GR;
Teilhard believed the universe was evolving towards a greater level of
complexity and consciousness, so the essay or Chapter in question,
Chapter 8 of the famous book both authors use and reverse,  _The
Future of Man_, a book a lot of hip people were digging back when GR
was composed, is used thematically, in an inverted madness it haunts
the American Landscape and Consciousness, as an haunting inversion-- a
psychological and physical entropy, an escape-velocity- history of no
future on Earth.

Why would he argue that it is impossible to stop the bomb project?

Now there's the rub, there's the connection to C.S.  Peirce and the
American metaphysical branch of philosophy. This is how it becomes
clear that Peirce is more likely, as Mark has intimated, a parodic
figure.