FW: 1984 Foreword "fascistic disposition"

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In a message dated 5/8/2003 2:15:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
mikeweaver at gn.apc.org writes:


> The "Western Democracies" cannot be separated from their client states/ex 
> colonies over whom they (their corporations) maintain economic dominance. 
> When you take the preterite populations of those countries and add them to 
> the 30 - 40% of our populations for whom political equality and 
> intellectual freedom is a joke, 

This is the crux of the issue. People in "the west" enjoy a freedom
which is based on the exploitation of cheap labor and 'pirated'
resourses of the third world. No society based on capitalism can
offer the majority of its citizenry anything close to what is called
"freedom" without the horrendous exploitation of non-industrialized 
cultures. That is the truth of "Freedom is Slavery."

Pynchon alludes to this in, appropriately, Ch. 11 of M&D, which
by itself would make M&D a masterpiece. The bankrupt- morally
and economically- modus operandi of the modern capitalist state
is based on nothing less than the transformation of the third world
into a permanent underclass, dedicated to fulfilling the fetishistic
whims of the "first" world. The freedom of the west is based on the 
twin gallows. Trumpeting the freedom half of the bloody equation-
"Freedom is Slavery" is the height (or abyss) of doublethink.

respectfully
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