American waste

[Eric Rosenbloom]

Daniele Mancrasso wrote:
> Can anyone explain to me (I'm Italian) why American writers as
> Wallace (Infinite Jest), DeLillo (Underworld) and Pynchon (Gravity's
> Rainbow) were so much concerned with American waste problem?

It's pretty straightforward as a symbol, or full of raw material. Ivan's
answer about consumption is probably most of it. The USA is a country of
former peasants. We think we've got somewhere when we don't hesitate to
throw something out, buy something new for no reason at all. 

I might add Entropy, the law of thermodynamics that order created in one
place creates disorder someplace else: Our own expanding consumerist
bubble stretching against a chaos of its own making . . .

--
Eric R



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