The real business of the war is all theatre/theater

[Otto]

> On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 00:17, Otto wrote:
>
> > > Your post in response
> > > to malignd in which you asked if the knowledge was widespread in '73
> > > that it was the corporations and not central governments that ruled
the
> > > world drew a very inappropriate binary opposition between the two
> > > entities I think.
> >
> > Are you quoting Rob (on Dugdale) here?
>
> Neither, are they experts on inappropriate binary opposition?
>

Rob had written: "Dugdale's overblown rhetoric indicates where his
sympathies lie in the false binary opposition he has constructed, by the way
(...)." And yes, like myself Rob seems to prefer a postmodernist take on
Pynchon, which is only possible by looking for the binary oppositions he
uses.

inappropriate binary opposition = false binary opposition

So I suspected you had written Rob's post and taken over his formulation
slightly disguised.

> >
> > The trouble is that there's really no opposition
> > (but should be according to
> > our constitutions) between the two entities.
> >  That the government should
> > control the economy and not vice versa.
> > The economy says "Outsorcing" and
> > the politicians shout in response "Tax cuts, reduced wages, lower
ecological
> > standard."
>
> Your question had implied that EITHER national governments OR giant
> corporations ruled the world. That wouldn't allow for the possiblity
> (which also happens to be the case) that both had important roles in the
> undertaking.
>

"Was it widespread knowledge in 1973 that the world wasn't run (and ruined)
by governments but trusts and cartels?"

I should have included "alone" after "governments".

Otto