Connections & the Ice Princess

[Henry M]

Nice points, Steel-Person (heh, heh), but:

1.	Except for the completely ineffective ones, politicians in this 
country are, practically without exception, tied into big business. 
Why the surprise?

2.	Does it Not "Take a Village". Sure big government is a poor 
substitute for family and neighborhood, but it sure looks like some 
programatic change is neccessary. I took my daughter around the 
neighborhood for trick or treating: practically all of the houses 
that sported Dole and what's his name signs were closed to the kids.

On 13 Nov 96 at 6:50, Steelhead wrote:

> The Ultra-right is, of course, quite right about Hillary, and I
> trust Pynchon sees through the Ice Princess of our Republic as well.
> It Takes a Village is a toturously written lie, a shameless
> appropriation of a pleasant African proverb crudely refashioned to
> fit a truly malign ideology. Her book is a kind of manual for the
> intrusive powers of the State to the dictate behavior of children,
> parents, and the rest of us. Hillary's "Village" is not the extended
> family, the flesh and blood of kinship ties, or the experiential
> relationships of community. Her Village is an Abstraction: the
> guiding, molding, and regulating hand of the State.
> 
> Surprised? You shouldn't be. This is, afterall, the same
> administration that signed the Welfare Bill, consigning more than a
> million children to even more desperate poverty, hunger,and probable
> death. It is an administration that has urged school uniforms,
> rampant drug testing, lambasted teen-age mothers as the scourge of
> the Republic, supported the V-Chip, doubled the number of wiretaps
> on US citizens, and on and on. HRC and Bubba are leading a virtual
> war against children. Why? The answer is simple. They only pander to
> people who vote.
> 
> Plus HRC's a shameless whore for the corporations. She sat on the
> board of LaFarge-Coppee, until she took up residence in the WH.
> LaFarge is a cement company that fires up its kilns with hazardous
> waste, toxic sludge. It builds its plants in poor communities
> inhabited mainly by disenfranchised people of color. And they don't
> call it cancer alley for nothing. Personally, I hope she's indicted.
> 
> When it comes down to the war of the Corporations and the State
> against the individual (a war that has been going on for more than a
> few decades), I hope I know where Pynchon sides.
> 
> Steely
> 
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