VLVL Berger: the deal

[Otto]

Hungry Freaks, Daddy

Mister America
Walk on by
Your schools that do not teach
Mister America
Walk on by
The minds that won't be reached
Mister America
Try to hide
The emptiness that's you inside
When once you find that the way you lied
And all the corny tricks you tried
Will not forestall the rising tide of
Hungry freaks, Daddy . . . 

They won't go
For no more
Great mid-western hardware store
Philosophy that turns away
>From those who aren't afraid to say
What's on their minds
(The left-behinds of the Great Society) 

Hungry freaks, Daddy . . . 

Mister America
Walk on by
Your supermarket dream
Mister America
Walk on by
The liquor store supreme
Mister America
Try to hide
The product of your savage pride
The useful minds that it denied
The day you shrugged and stepped aside
You saw their clothes and then you cried:
THOSE HUNGRY FREAKS, DADDY! 

They won't go
For no more
Great mid-western hardware store
Philosophy that turns away
>From those who aren't afraid to say
What's on their minds
(The left-behinds of the Great Society) 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith McMullen" <keithsz at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Pynchon Shitlist" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: VLVL Berger: the deal


> >>>In terms of the point Berger is attempting to make, it's another 
> example of
> how the 60s generation sold out on itself.<<<
> 
> Agreed. Berger makes up the "government-funded" reading as if it is 'in 
> fact,' which puts the caricaturization of the 60s on the Right instead 
> of where Pynchon is 'in fact' putting it, on the hippie movement. 
> Little wonder that Pynchon makes reference to Zappa, who used rock and 
> roll in the 60s to make fun of hippies, instead of the likes of 
> Jefferson Airplane:
> 
>   We Can Be Together
> 
>   We can be together
>   Ah you and me
>   We should be together
>   We are all outlaws in the eyes of America
>   In order to survive we steal cheat lie forge fuck hide and deal
>   We are obscene lawless hideous dangerous dirty violent and young
>   But we should be together
>   Come on all you people standing around
>   Our life's too fine to let it die and
>   We should be together
>   All your private property is
>   Target for your enemy
>   And your enemy is
>   We
>   We are forces of chaos and anarchy
>   Everything they say we are we are
>   And we are very
>   Proud of ourselves
>   Up against the wall
>   Up against the wall(motherfucker)
>   Tear down the walls
>   Tear down the walls
>   Come on now together
>   Get it on together
>   Everybody together
>   We should be together
>   We should be together my friends
>   We can be together
>   We will be
>   We must begin here and now
>   A new continent of earth and fire
>   Come on now gettin higher and higher
>   Tear down the walls
>   Tear down the walls
>   Tear down the walls
>   Won't you try