It's about time. . . .

[David Morris]

On 11/1/07, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>     Monte Davis: Pynchon long ago provided a capsule review of
>     "Zeitgeist" -- and, if you like, an explanation of why his Vast
>     Conspiracies are over-the-top parody
>     (c'mon, L.A.H.D.I.D.A.? Jesuit telegraphers?):
>
>     "Proverbs for Paranoids, 3: If they can get you asking the wrong
>     questions, they don't have to worry about answers."
>
> Fine groovy, and all that but---
> Why the focus on I.G. Farben in GR? Or is that the wrong question?
>
> And by the way David---International Banking [the 'Fiscal Illumanati']
> I.G. Farben. Get it? One of the 'Wrong Questions' is continuing to
> think of the Fiscal Illumanati as "the Jews". That was the essential
> BIG LIE. It was the war machine itself that went after the Jews. Lots
> on that subject in GR.
>

GR clearly includes supra-national corporations (including banks - but
he resisted references to a really much more sinister "corporation"
called the Illuminati) as one of the agents of conspiracy/paranoia,
but I think too many take that never-was-a-secret message as the
literal heart of the book's construction.  The message is much more
abstract and broadly inclusive than that.  The act of connecting the
dots is the very mechanism of perception, and patterns are visible (if
one looks hard enough - or takes the right drugs) in EVERYTHING, real
or imagined.  And how far down into the structure of existence these
patterns persist contains its own possibility of conspiracy beyond the
realm of humanity.  That is more the revelation of GR than some John
Birch Society message (which far pre-dated GR).

David Morris