Lurker Rants, Too!

[Greg Montalbano]

At 04:05 PM 2/25/97 GMT, you wrote:

>Our problem is that Spielberg's film suggests that free market
>capitalism can stop future holocausts, that free market capitalism is
>the best safeguard any nation has against totalitarianism, that the
>war was not initiated, fuelled and milked by free market capitalism
>but by a relatively small bunch of sick fanatics whose better natures
>had been corrupted by a small inexplicably but ineradicably evil bunch
>of Nazi thugs. 

Thank you, Andrew, for bringing this thread back to Pynchon. Looking at
SL in the light of GR kinda puts it in a clearer perspective.

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