Profit and loss

[Doug Millison]

calbert
 "Pynchon 
as undiscriminating bleeding heart" theory.

Doug:
That's not my theory, thanks all the same.

Doug:
> 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.

calbert:
We also see the numbers of dead 
racked up by factors wholy unrelated to "capital and corporations", 
the point being, it seems, that the world really doesn't care, nor does 
it take time to comfort the survivors........


The fact that natural disasters kill people doesn't let corporations off the
hook for profiting from the dead Dora slaves to build the Rocket and swell
Bloody Chiclitz's aerospace fortunes in GR, or for profiting from the
destruction of the environment in M&D - cut that Visto, pave it over, build
a mall ....