Sure sign of madness, wasRE: globalization & Pynchon?

[Doug Millison]

Sometimes shit just happens. And sometimes it's people (and their agents --
corporations, technologies, governments) making the shit happen.  For every
tornado, a toxic waste dump.


"These were mass deaths. There were also the attendant maimed, 
malfunctioning, homeless, lorn. It happens every month in a 
succession of encounters between groups of living and a congruent 
world which simply does not care. Look in any yearly Almanac, 
under "Disasters" - which is where the figures above come from. 
The BUSINESS IS TRANSACTED month after month after month."

(V, Pgs. 290-1, Perennial/Harper& Row)