GRGR(18) - Obedience

[David Morris]

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(400.36) But really he did not obey like a corpse.  He
_was_ political - up to a point.  There was politics
enough out on the rocket field.
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Does a corpse obey?  Only if it's a zombie, the mind
gone, action controlled by another.  Sort of like a
robot, huh?

SPOILER: And look where Polker's rocket field politics
get him: sitting out in a field waiting for one to
land on his head.

I think Polker and Slothrop do have their parallels. 
Polker accepts service to (and victimization by) the
Rocket voluntarily, as an adult, thereby becoming a
child.  Slothrop's service and victimization was as an
infant, and his rebellion as an adult.

This German-Obedience theme ("I was only following
orders") seems summed up (Freudian Terrance?) in the
Hansel & Gretel story: Childhood Obedience
(victimization) vs. Oedipal Escape.

David Morris
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