The real business of the war is all theatre/theater

[Paul Mackin]

On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 05:37, Otto wrote:
> > 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.

I guess for an awful moment you thought I might be a plagiarist . . .

> 
> > >
> > > 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".

You are forgiven, dear Otto.