pynchon-l-digest V2 #1788

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

The Zone tells about myriad of things, but it surely seems 
to tell about, or better, "activate readers to think&feel
about" globalization. Not only economically, but on many 
- heterogenic, yet not independent - levels. (Apparently, 
"Americanization" being one of the threads here.) Still,
to take the paradigmatic case of Enzian contemplations
around the page 521 (Viking), economy never ceases to be 
very important. Don't have GR on hand, but if I memorize 
it right, he among other things awakes to think of 
"distribution networks we were never taught". 

So we should not, perhaps, cling to names like "U.S.A.", 
"Germany", etc., at least not when trying to trace the 
capital flows. Needless to say, dictatorship, corruption, 
sexism, etc. are huge problems in numerous "Third World" 
countries. On the other hand, the average pumping out of 
capital from Third World countries remains 7 times higher 
than input. Of course, it is not the "United States of 
America", "Federal Republic of Germany", or "Republic of 
Finland" etc. who are directly responsible for this ratio. 
My vote goes rather to transnational companies. Call me 
nuts, but I wouldn't be surprised if a VERY big amount of 
this money flow ended up in the "United States of America".

But what is the relation between internal and external
exploitations here? Are there any general correlations?
Yes? No? Yes'n'no?



Heikki

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