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

[Mark Kohut]

gaddis-l at yahoogroups.com

There is not much posting there.

On Sun, Mar 13, 2022 at 2:35 PM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>> > --
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>> >
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>>
>
>
> --
> Arthur
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