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

[Mark Kohut]

I agree with all David says AND in keeping with those overall themes of GR,
I have read abstraction partly in Max Weber's way, esp as work, required
pain is invoked

...."the bureaucratic rationality of modern Western societies"

On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 7:21 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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