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

[Mike Jing]

Thanks for replying, David and Mark.

The published translation took it as "absence of mind", and I thought I'd
ask just to be sure.


On Sun, May 22, 2022 at 7:39 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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