VLVL Jesuit Machine & Benedictine Capitalism

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The Sisters accumulate Capital (their assets are  managed, invested,
accounted for, defended in the courts by other Professionals) by
widening the scale of their operations and  increasing turnover. While
Rochelle tells Prairie that they are not a car wash for the soul, the
clientele, professionals for the most part, solicited with
advertisements in magazines like Psychology Today, are there to be
buffed up all nice new and cherry and sent back out into the real world.
This ain't The Hunchback Of Notre-Dame and this ain't The Brothers
Karamozov, Alyosha. Take Thee to a Profane Sisterhood. . Discovering New
Territories for exploitation (Cyber-culture, eating disorders ... ), the
Sisters maintain good-size computer files on people like Frenesi Gates
and feed on starving souls. And, they have the latest and greatest
Invention. 

The Jesuit Machine and Benedictine Capitalism are often at odds in P's
fictions  and in the real world. Trade (Capital) rivals Invention (
Machine) by offering greater opportunity for profit. So, for example, 
it will curb development in order to increase the profit of a particular
monopoly GR). But the Sisterhood has both. Trade (abetted by War--WWII,
SE Asia, Korea ...) is what brings in the New (New Age) Ideas, the
martial arts, the Eastern Religions, and all the trappings. And Trade
(and War) develops the large-scale enterprises ("Return of the Jedi" is
not simply an oblique allusion in Chapter One, Nor is "IT" in Chapter
Two, "Mildred Pierce"  ... "Hunchback of Chartres ...) that make up the
System. The Sisters, Capitalists and Colonialists (Prairie equates the
contracted food workers with spaced out Star Trek characters)   use the
Machine, not to further Social Welfare, but for Private Interests and
Profit. Not to mention the aggrandizement of the Sisterhood. 

Hey, we've got the latest Machines and  Cancer Cures. 

How much? 

For What? 

How much will it cost? 

um, an arm, a leg, half a soul, and your backbone if you've got one.