from an article in the Korea Herald probably yesterday

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Wed Dec 23 09:29:01 CST 2009


Thanks.  "Industrial anything" indeed.

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> Sounds like a paraphrase from CoL49, during a discussion about the "Peter Penguid Society" between Metzger & Fallopian:
>
>        "But that sounds," objected Metzger, "like he was against
>        industrial capitalism. Wouldn't that disqualify him as any kind of
>        anti-Communist figure?"
>
>        "You think like a Bircher," Fallopian said. "Good guys and bad
>        guys. You never get to any of the underlying truth. Sure he was
>        against industrial capitalism. So are we. Didn't it lead,
>        inevitably, to Marxism? Underneath, both are part of the same
>        creeping horror." "Industrial anything," hazarded Metzger.
>
>        "There you go," nodded Fallopian.



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