Working all day in the factory...

[Courtney Givens]

building a big bomb
they gonna drop on me
heaven help the children...

               --LIttle SteeeeVVVVV wonder






MD wrote:


He offers without comment that the factory system "had been extended to 
include the Manhattan project," which seems to me another questionable 
assertion.   The Manhattan project, however unfortunate its outcome, was 
mainly a harnessing of scientific talent in three countries to a specific 
project in very particular circumstances.  There was an assigning of roles 
and tasks, but that was undoubtedly true in the building of the pyramids and 
owes little to the technology of mass production.

Well, that's a give away Malign. The Pyramids?
There was an assignment of roles and tasks in the
building of the first shelters that humans
constructed to take shelter, but they too were built prior to 
industrialization and the industrialization of war.

Pynchon  is correct I think. Well, being a Lady,
I don't know much about it, but he is not alone
in thinking as he does about the MP in the Luddite essay.


"The search for a revolutionary weapon was one of the most immediate and 
persistent outcomes of the industrialization of war in the mid-nineteenth 
century, and both a logical and an inevitable extension of the revolution in 
war which preceded it" (Keegan, John, The Second World War. 578).

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