American Entropy

[bekah]

Reminds me of Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann.    It's actually called 
the "Buddenbrooks Syndrome." 
<http://www.powells.com/review/2006_12_28>

(good book, btw)

Bekah

At 9:52 PM +0000 3/30/07, robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:
>Remarkably pertinent:
>
>               I'm in the third generation of a family fortune.              
>               I was disinherited from this fortune, which means
>               I am free from the obligations and the codes of
>               inherited wealth. I have been kicked out of the
>               club so am happy to teach you the secret hand-shake.
>               It also means that I have been thrown back into the
>               first generation -- forced to invent my world, to play
>               jazz. For a man who has inherited wealth, even a
>               man, like Trump, who inherited wealth then turned
>               it into more wealth, it will always Grandpa's world.
>               That's why Trump puts his name on everything.
>               He's a kid saying to himself in the dark, "I am here,
>               I am here, I am here. . . .
>
>               . . . .I have watched all this with a sense of strange
>               detachment -- as if I was seeing not the story
>               of my family, but the story of the nation personified
>               in a life of a business. It is the story of how a legacy
>               corrupts over time. It is what Thomas Pynchon calls
>               entropy.
>
>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rich-cohen/american-entropy_b_44642.html
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