Profit and loss

Doug Millison DMillison at ftmg.net
Thu May 3 15:27:31 CDT 2001


What's good for business is good for everybody? Trickle down? A rising tide
floats all boats?

I don't think you'll find much support for that sort of thinking in
Pynchon's work.  If you do, I've got a Bridge I'd like to sell you.

The right-wing propaganda that floods this forum might easily be
characterized as "crap ...full
of angry wind." 

Which Pynchon novels show how sky-rocketing foreign exchange and currency
and index and commodities, and all manner of derivatives " lead to increases
in human happiness?

What you do find are story lines and characters and actual historical
situations that depict capital and corporations profiting from war,
environmental destruction, alienation.  See GR, M&D, Vineland, V., COL49 for
many examples of same.




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