IVIV1: Introducing Pynchon's burgher

[alice wellintown]

Michael Bailey wrote:
> Why is a repo person automatically heinous?

Because he don't make nothin with his labor. He's a vampire & a
Vulture ...just sucking the blood out the poor working stiff's neck.
Read the NY Times? See what happened to poor people in the housing
bubble? See what the vultures did to the poor kids who couldn't pay
off those student loans? A-isn't that one of the reasons all them
white folk got out there and voted for the President? The Repo man is
henious if you live in Detroit. Don't ya think?


> People buy things on credit, but fail to pay --
> "what's a mother to do?"

Just doing his job. That's Larry's excuse for turning Japonica in to
her asshole old man and supporting the Reagan private mental health
care scam. Just doing my job. Yea, look me in the eyes, the windows of
the soul, and say that.

>
> He carries the bag but never uses it.  That's laudable.

Never uses what? The needle? That;s torture. That needle is nother
invasion of privacy. It ain't exactly constitutional an all. Larry
violates as many, if not more, civil and constitutional rights as the
next pig.

> He has a specific mission - to get the goods (as the IWW saying
> goes, "direct action gets the goods") and - unless all of contract law
> is to be thrown out as inadmissible impositions of The Man -
> he is performing a real service.

Service Sevice Sevice. Pick up a hammar. Do some work. Service my ass.
Service this. It's prostitution and pornography. Just nein
professional.


> ...yeah, yeah, buy-on-credit places
> jack up the price, and easily available credit leads people to live
> beyond their means, so forth, but these are systemic ills and have
> much more to do with inherent flaws in capitalism, or, to avoid that jargon,
> with areas where the human ability to interact gracefully is
> still developing (sort of like, hey, where was language or algebra
> a few thousand years ago - they didn't even have a word for
> antidisestablishmentarianism in Egypt, nor did Greek math have a zero,
> so I suspect there's some unknown right now that will make a huge
> difference in the spreading of wealth sometime, when it takes hold
> ("the reds are talking hold" - Hunter S Thompson)) so forth, than with
> the legitimacy of private collection efforts in any individual case...

Man, don't you read the papers? Some dude, performing service, got a
$100,000,000 bonus the other day. Man, I wonder if he's gonna donate
some of it to all those poor folk who lost their houses to them damn
alluminum siding sales & usary loans that the government sicked on
them poor minorities trying to keep a roof over a family's head?



>
> but we've established his efforts were non-violent, right?

Non vilolent's ass. You threaten me with a needle, you don't even need
ot take it out your bag, I'm a consider it a threat. You wanna mug me,
use a gun or get your ass kicked. Up to you. see?

>
> His private-enterprise role pretty much prevents him being corrupt
> to any great extent: collude with one deadbeat and his job is pretty much
> toast.  He has to get the car, or whatever, back.

He has to stay out of my neigborhood is ewhat he has to do.