On the authority behind the Chums?; from Democracy in America, Chap 5

[Dave Monroe]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 'Written laws exist in America, and one sees the daily execution of them; but although everything moves regularly, the mover can nowhere be discovered. The hand which directs the social machine is invisible."

What clues, if any, do we have as to where their orders come from?
Those for any of the other airborne crews?  And then there are the
Visitors, what ultimately of them?  What are we still left not knowing
at novel's end?  Such things seem peculiarly to the point in (or,
perhaps more precsiely, NOT in) those Pynchonian texts ...