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Why we don’t let compassion get in
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Related reading . . . Other posts now tagged "Original Conspiracy."
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
“Triangle of Sadness” Conspiracy?
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Plan 9
Related material from June 3, 2008 …
On Faith:
“God is the original conspiracy theory….
Among the varieties of Christian monotheism,
none is more totalitarian, none lodges more radical
claims for God’s omnipotence, than Calvinism—
and within America, the chief analogue of Calvinist
theology, Puritanism. According to Calvin every
particle of dust, every act, every thought, every
creature is governed by the will of God, and yields
clues to the divine plan.”
– Scott Sanders, “Pynchon’s Paranoid History“
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Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Tuesday June 3, 2008
Faith, Doubt, Art
and The New Yorker
On Faith:
and The New Yorker
On Faith:
"God is the original conspiracy theory….
Among the varieties of Christian monotheism, none is more totalitarian, none lodges more radical claims for God's omnipotence, than Calvinism– and within America, the chief analogue of Calvinist theology, Puritanism. According to Calvin every particle of dust, every act, every thought, every creature is governed by the will of God, and yields clues to the divine plan."
— Scott Sanders, "Pynchon's Paranoid History"
On Doubt:
"a Puritan reflex of seeking other orders beyond the visible, also known as paranoia"
— Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics, 1995), p. 188
On Art:
The current annual fiction issue of The New Yorker has a section of apparently non-fictional memoirs titled "Faith and Doubt."
I suggest that faith and doubt are best reconciled by art– as in A Contrapuntal Theme and in the magazine's current online podcast of Mary Gaitskill reading a 1948 New Yorker story by Vladimir Nabokov.
For the text of the story, see "Signs and Symbols." For an excellent discussion of Nabokov's art, see "The Signs and Symbols in Nabokov's 'Signs and Symbols,'" by Alexander Dolinin.