GR translation: work, abstraction, required pain, bitter death

[David Morris]

In this instance, and in keeping with some overall themes of GR,
Abstraction is a kind of Analysis that takes the all-encompassing
“picture,” and reduces, compresses, “simplifies” it along particular lines
of what it purports to be the most important information.  One very simple
example would be to translate a color photograph to Black & White.

On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 4:39 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> V41.24-28, P42.12-16  . . . but both know, clearly, it’s better together,
> snuggled in, than back out in the paper, fires, khaki, steel of the Home
> Front. That, indeed, the Home Front is something of a fiction and lie,
> designed, not too subtly, to draw them apart, to subvert love in favor of
> work, abstraction, required pain, bitter death.
>
> What does "abstraction" mean here?
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