IBM, Disney, Bush: Nazis?

[Terrance]

jbor wrote:
> 
> > But I
> > think that the culture of blame which is being perpetuated in these
> > so-called "reports" is also quite despicable, and that it is the same
> > "culture of blame" on which Nazism thrived, which they exploited,
> > manipulated.
> 
> A quick clarification. What is despicable imo is the way the "historical
> record" is being exploited and distorted to score cheap shots against the
> Prez Bush(es) or Microsoft. The legitimate pursuit of war criminals and
> lawsuits lodged against corporations who broke actual laws aren't
> despicable, though, arguably, they're somewhat hypocritical (as Slothrop
> seems to be pondering re. the Nurnberg Trials at 681.30). But it's this
> indiscriminate labelling of any convenient contemporary target as "Nazi" or
> "war criminal" in order to vilify it and thus usurp its *wholly legal*
> political authority or market share which is odious. The reduction of WWII
> and its consequences -- including the suffering and humiliation endured by
> the victims of the Holocaust -- to the status of a rhetorical ploy is what
> is despicable.

I had no difficulty understanding that this was exactly what
you meant all along. 
But what's good for the goose, allows the pot to call the
kettle white. Save bandwidth or whatever, but snipping and
re-writing the other guys posts is a habit round this list.
A BAD habit. 
> 
> By "culture of blame" I am referring to the exploitation of religious,
> historical and economic anti-Semitism (for example) by the Nazis in Germany
> to co-opt and maintain political power there. This is exemplified in _GR_ in
> the story of Leni Pokler's childhood. It is a "culture" which was not begun
> by the Nazis and which did not end with them. It has been and still is
> perpetuated in arrogant ignorance, craven self-interest and by chest-beating
> patriots alike. Hate and discrimination, not "evil Nazis", are what
> Pynchon's texts expose. Hate and discrimination no matter whether it is
> wrought by a nation on millions of its own people or by one small-minded
> secret service agent on John Dillinger.

That's right, and of course P's texts expose  the evils
(Nazi evils and Colonial evils for example) that begin when
hate and discrimination are not confronted in a meaningful
and constructive way. The culture of blame is not a
meaningful or constructive  way of confronting hate,
discrimination, and evil, in fact it's a cause of these.
Blame Bush for it. Blame Hitler. Blame IBM. Blame the
Rocket. Blame the earth. Blame the old gods and raze their
temples. Raise new temples and praise the new gods. 

The arcade, the amusement park, btw, was an important
metaphor for the Beat Generation. I don't think it had
anything to do with Disney, but with the Beat religion and
the Bomb.    

It's always a good idea, in the interest of communication to
include a P text, so what are you saying about Slothrop
pondering the Nurnberg Trials at GR. 681.30?