NP....but RT....esp the odious Chris Hedges. Sorry, there are too many pics I can't cut to send a cut and paste.....

[Arthur Fuller]

Mark,
Is there perchance a list equivalent to this but dedicated to my favourite
American author, William Gaddis?

On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 12:58 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think the way the WHOLE WORLD but the leaders of about four countries are
> manifesting Mutually Assured Cooperation is like the Whirlwind.
>
> nice phrase, that MAC....
>
> when I get to it, I will write something about MAD and pynchon and his
> themes...
>
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 12:50 PM jody2.718 via Pynchon-l <
> pynchon-l at waste.org> wrote:
>
> > "In which the once good Chris Hedges who would, of course..."
> >
> > It was once upon a time, when he preached that "War" is an organizing
> > principal, as much as religion, on which our culture depends, and he got
> > booed off the stage at a Rockford College, Illinois, graduation- had his
> > mic cut off, and was generally drowned out by the conservative audience;
> It
> > was also reported in the NY Times at that time- many tears ago.
> >
> > But, as Roger Mexico made explicit in GR, War is a Mother with teats of
> > ice, and nothing organizes society faster and more completely than her
> > baleful gaze, excepting maybe her husband, Mr. Missile. War is the go to
> > answer for Fascists and Democrats alike, when confronted with any great
> > uncertainty that threatens to shake up the hierarchy of the powers that
> be.
> > War belies not just an overweening sense of entitlement of the elite- of
> > which Hedges might be considered- but a real lack of imagination and
> > creativity, not to mention humility, compassion, understanding,
> generosity,
> > altruism, etc., etc,- when confronted with impending cataclysms that
> > threaten to upend the status quo. They externalize their own shortcomings
> > at the expense of the rest of us, and treat us like ballast for their
> > Yachts of State.
> >
> > Threatened as we are on many fronts from the pandemic, to climate change,
> > to unsustainable inequality, the current level of uncertainty facing the
> > world, while perhaps not quite apocalyptic, is at least surreal; . As
> > Russia slouches toward Kyiv, the center of the peace between the "great"
> > powers, based on the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction, which has
> > kept annihilation off the "playing" field, is failing.
> >
> > It is revealing that those who would purport to be people of peace, like
> > the self-promoting Hedges (well named at least) would be gravitating
> toward
> > centers of power, expressing more of an elite ability to float above it
> all
> > and go wherever they might, than to exhibit real leadership. (I know I'm
> > being unfair, but...)
> >
> > Faced with the current uncertainties, is there any chance to flip the
> coin
> > and base our survival on a new organizing principle- like big MAC, or
> > Mutually Assured Cooperation?
> >
> > I can't hear much in the wind today but I could probably use a hearing
> aid
> > at this point.
> > --
> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
> >
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>


-- 
Arthur