SLSL Intro: Pynchon on class barriers

[pynchonoid]

Malign:
>false (e.g., the media 
>(?) insist that class barriers don't exist?).  

Egg on my face! Not long after I hit Send and posted
that email to Pynchon-L, I turned on the Tube, voila!
An in-depth documentary  on Fox News Channel examined
how upper-class families like the Bush tribe manage to
profit from connections with their peers, inside
government and business, while the lower classes have
to make do without that sort of network, 60 minutes
later, boy was I ever enlightened.  I especially liked
the way Fox looked at the way the Bush class will
profit from a war in Iraq even more than they have in
Afghanistan, considering the oil spoils that will
flow, once they get all those pipelines built.  Fox
went in-depth on all the oil industry connections of
the Bush Administration, too, and how the war will pad
their portfolios.  Flipping the channels a bit, there
was CNN at it, as well.  Checked the TV Guide -- ABC,
NBC, and CBS will be featuring this topic on the
Sunday morning talk shows, with shows presenting a
class analysis approach to the upcoming war on Iraq
scheduled every night next week, sez here the network
news execs "want to help people to understand how
those with the money and power manage to divide the
rest, to upper class advantage."  


> But the >"American Dream," using now 
>that not very useful term to mean "a greater degree
>of self-determination and 
>opportunity than one is likely to find elsewhere,"
>isn't a sham. 

Change the definition, make it mean whatever you want
it to mean. Every Man a King! Two chickens in every
pot! That American dream is within reach of anybody on
food stamps, boy are you ever right. 

Back to Pynchon, agreeing, apparently, with the
class-conscious Fox News Channel:  

"It may yet turn out that racial differences are not
as basic as questions of money and power, but have
served a useful purpose, often in the interest of
those who deplore them the most, in keeping us divided
and so relatively poor and powerless." 

Wildly,
Demagogue Doug





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