[lit-ideas] Re: TUESDAY'S FORCAST


On 29-Jul-09, at 3:46 PM, veronica caley wrote:


Mike:
"God has his reasons, I know,
I just wish that He would slow
down his retribution against mankind
for fucking up his grand design."

Veronica

"What grand design?"
My comment was in reference to the above lines in Mike's poem. Nothing to do with car designs. God's design is how I took it.
Of course it has to do with car designs. The '57 Corvette is an indication that some of us are in tune. The bankruptcy of GM - that some of us are out of tune.
As ludicrous as the above may sound, it HAS TO BE right - if one is to accept any (intelligent) Grand Design Theory. Car design may not be the FIRST thing (at least to some), but it has to be a part.
Discussing the aesthetics of the '57 Corvette would take us into Kantian themes. 

Discussion of the bankruptcy of GM - Calvinist.
(Calvin just celebrated his 500th birthday on July 10th. There was much interesting discussion in the media - at least those to whom I pay attention - here; there seemed to be general consensus among Protestant theologians that Calvin would not have approved of many contemporary investment banking practices, among other things.)
In reference to Mike's poem: some Grand Design theorists would maintain that God - or the Designer - need not / does not take a retributive hand in things at all. The Design is running its course: when we're in tune we get beauty (i.e., the '57 Corvette) and riches; when we're out of tune things get ugly (discordant) and mean (in both senses). 

Chris Bruce,
the disgruntled pedestrian, in
Kiel, Germany
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