No, I'm Doug

[Phil Wise]

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From: "Terrance" <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: No, I'm Doug


>
> I'm not bemoaning the fate of the markets, but the fate of the men and
> woman and children murdered and crippled and maimed and impoverished by
> the terror that struck the market place. I bemoan  the  fate of those
> whip-sawed by the market's gyrations brought on by the acts of terror
> and the acts of powerful men who have manipulated or tried to manipulate
> the markets.
>
> They have both failed. American men and woman stand tall. The terrorists
> and anti-globalists may dance in the streets or crack a guilty smile and
> say,
>
>  "they had it coming, too bad for the dead, but I'm sure they had
> insurance,"

Please.  First Mike Moore (Former NZ Prime Minister, now head of the WTO)
who conflated protesters with the terrorists, then Peter Beinart (New
Republic resident dry rave) and now you.  I'm surprised and shocked,
frankly, unless you are being ironic, or speaking in the voice of others.
You don't actually believe this conflation, do you????

phil

>
> but they don't understand the markets at all, they never will understand
> the humanity of it. They  talk of the markets as if they are machines or
> the machinations of corporate monsters who murder and exploit the poor
> and underprivileged. With the smell of rotting corpses rising from the
> ashes and tears still flowing all around, they can only offer a false
> condolence for the murdered children of America, but oh how they scream
> from the paper minarets about the children half way round the world.
> There is something odd in that. Isn't there?   Some sort of denial, some
> self-righteous, self-serving phoniness, some perverse need to control
> the emotions and politics of others as if they were children.  Call it
> anti-American or misguided and strident, but I'd  call it   the sort of
> Brock Vond and Frenesi self-serving and maniacal betrayal  (with a
> madwoman in the attic named Barbara) we find in VL.
>