The Inconveniences of the modern world.

[Mark Kohut]

Nozick: Anarchy, State and Utopia: 
"how serious are the inconveniences that yet remain to be remedied by the state," ?

Reading further in Nozick, I am convinced that TRP got this notion of inconveniences
in his fiction from Locke--and/or Nozick's use of it. 

Nozick explores the notion of an 'association(s)' to protect a stateless people: "the inconvenience
of everyone's being on call...can be handled...by division of labor and exchange." [that Chums Org?]
"Some people will be hired to perform protective functions. [Chums mysterious first employer?] and 
some entrepreneurs will go into the business of protective services. [the later self-employed Chums?]
"Different sorts of protective policies would be offered, at different prices, for those who may desire
more extensive or elaborate protection."

Nozick cites LATER Max Weber, one of OBAs faves we know, on the growth of modern economic and social
orgs which I have thought, might describe how --and why---the Chums' mini-city is in AtD. One set of reasons anyway.

I once heard a panel of two self-defined anarchists, one brilliant, imho, talk about the ways society might work
under statelessness, theoretical anarchy. Then they had Q & A. Which they handled OK until 

the question of slavery under an anarchist society in the U.S., say, and the Civil War needed to end that
obvious Human Injustice came up. Best they could answer was it was the working out of an individual state's rights' question.
Which, of course, does NOT answer the question since the American Civil War was states' secession....

They had spoken of states, lower-case, as in America's past, "almost" anarchist communitites in their early years, just "no government" groupings of foax....farmers, loggers, yeoman, etc., etc. 

But we know that one of the Chums most recent intercessions was The Rebellion Between the States.......one of those 
"inconveniences that remained to be remedied by the state", to quote from my start?  In a theoretical anarchist society, how 
do the most basic human rights get upheld if the totality of stateless

In M & D, the word 'inconvenience' is used to mean the problem of caring [enough to be put out to help]. We have explored their
bodissatva-like compassion. 

A--the?---most major meaning of The Chums plot, that booklength throughline, is as a metaphor for an association [Locke: an incipient social contract] that grows
into a metaphor for the State that sometimes 'helps'' right massive injustices on this pendant earth. It "explains", fits, from beginning to end, especially that mini-city surprise by the end. 

We know the main satiric thrust of OBA's work, lifelong, is against the State's cruel self-serving 
evil and stupidities. Weber defines a State as the purported [monopoly] authority to impose by force. 
Such "power' inspires our author's lifelong anger. 

Yet, he also knows, as always, there is more until one touches bottom conceptually. The Chums become the necessary, complex, modern bourgeois Org,---the luxury liner that is also a battleship---- the modern state, that flies off to meet what it has created, Gravity's Rainbow.
 
A---and I want to REPEAT:  Pynchon is a writer of fiction, using what captures his imagination, NOT a political theorist.