ATD: NO SPOILERS NO PAGE # Re: Rocketmen and Wastelands

[Monte Davis]

Tory:
> but in his later works he's grown increasingly aware that WE 
> create and help 
> sustain these inhuman systems; WE are "what drives the 
> circumstances", not 
> some abstract historical forces (see Vineland p. 80 for 
> Sasha's thoughts on 
> this).

And not all that late. GR 521. where it's already an old argument "among the
younger Shgwarzkommandio especially": 

"All very well to talk about having a monster by the tail, but do you think
we'd've had the Rocket if someone, some specific somebody with a name and a
penis hadn't wanted to chuck a ton of Amatol 300 miles and blow up a block
full of civilians? Go ahead, capitalize the T on technology, deify it if
it'll make you feel less responsible-but it puts you in with the neutered,
brother..."

Or for deify, read "reify"