Wernher von Braun

[Terrance]

Why Wernher von Braun? 

He's a German-American. 


He comes to America, where a democratic ethos, relatively weak
traditions, and a high
  receptivity to the new, especially new technologies,
  encourages enthusiastic technological advance with the
  belief that these benefits will spread to a large extent
  evenly among the entire population, if not the world. This
  childlike conviction, most widely held in America, I think,
  is exploited by the Cartels, who work very hard and bring
  their "technological knowledge" to the population, to sway
  an American optimism towards the improbable hope of unity
  through technological means. 

What did Pynchon pen at Boeing? 

Togetherness? 


Ah, but after V. (where we all love to see young people gettin
together), Pynchon becomes an agonist, yes, Robert, "the two perpetually
in struggle."