GR translation: bourgeois terms

[Mark Kohut]

"newtonian inevitabilities", yes.....everything in middle class life in the
West which 'reduces' the
unexplained, the sky-piercing totality....

On Fri, Nov 29, 2024 at 7:54 AM Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:

> Look to the paragraph before - the town as regularity and safety and the
> forest an impenetrable lair of chaos and indeterminacy. The ruling
> philosophy of the bourgeoisie had no room for the latter - stripping out
> the chaos and trauma inherent in the Rocket's arc and reducing the
> matters of concern to Newtonian equations. The bourgeoisie's
> justification for their dominance, their right to be at the top of the
> pyramid, was underpinned by their adherence to Newtonian inevitabilities.
>
> I'm currently reading Prigogine and Stengers "Order out of Chaos" so I
> may be projecting, just having been reading about the differences
> between regularity of Newtonian dynamics and the complexity of
> thermodynamics.
>
> Cheers
> Mike
>
> On 29/11/2024 09:12, Mike Jing wrote:
> > V239.21-24, P242.21-24   So was the Rocket’s terrible passage reduced,
> > literally, to bourgeois terms, terms of an equation such as that elegant
> > blend of philosophy and hardware, abstract change and hinged pivots of
> real
> > metals which describes motion under the aspect of yaw control:
> >
> > What exactly does "bourgeois terms" mean here?
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