Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon

[pynchonoid]

--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Is HAL profitable. 

Was Enron? Certainly for the profiteering crooks who
milked it dry of billions.  

Profit margins for Pentagon contractors have always
been high. I trust the arms merchants, Bechtel,
Halliburton, and the others to know that they will
make money off their activities in helping the US blow
up and rebuild Afghanistan, Iraq, the next target,
etc. 

No doubt that war is a drag on the world economy, but
that doesn't stop countless individuals and
corporations from profiting from the war on Iraq or
any other.

"Don't forget the real business of the War is buying
and selling. The murdering and the violence are
self-policing, and can be entrusted to
non-professionals. The mass nature of wartime death is
useful in many ways. It serves as spectacle, as
diversion from the real movements of the War. It
provides raw material to be recorded into History, so
that children may be taught History as sequences of
violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared
for the adult world. Best of all, mass death's a
stimulus to just ordinary folks, little fellows, to
try 'n' grab a piece of that Pie while they're still
here to gobble it up. The true war is a celebration of
markets." (Gravity's Rainbow, p. 105)



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