IVIV family

[Mark Kohut]

yea...I am not fully convinced that the Golden Fand stands for "capitalism", with all due respect to Robin and others who think so.......

for one, when did America ever 'import' capitalism, so to speak? 

But I dunno nothin bout birthin' new ideas here.....without further thought I guess I see the GF as our addiction to THINGS that destroy us, whatever that means......

--- On Fri, 12/11/09, Doug Millison <DOUGMILLISON at COMCAST.NET> wrote:

> From: Doug Millison <DOUGMILLISON at COMCAST.NET>
> Subject: IVIV family
> To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Friday, December 11, 2009, 12:26 PM
> Mark -  agreed on family being
> important in P's books, and he gives it a nuanced treatment.
> He writes about  Mothers and Fathers in GR in a way
> that I thought he might have been backing away from a bit in
> VL, but families are a mess in IV, too.
> 
> But, IF -- just riffin', not sure I really believe this
> always -- for example the Golden Fang is supposed to stand
> for "capitalism" then it would be money and the necessity of
> working as a wage slave that is the "heroin" that we're all
> strung out on, not China White.
> 
> Speaking of opiates, saw an interesting book in the Pegasus
> bookstore in Berkeley the other day:  Opium for the
> Masses: Harvesting Nature's Pain Medication by Jim
> Hogshire.  Easy to grow, harvest, and use the poppy, he
> writes.
> 
> I wonder why they don't just turn Afghanistan into the
> world's provider of opium for medical use, just divert the
> output from the warlords to Big Pharma, solving many
> problems with a single stone, so to speak….