The real estate developer motif in TRP and a Vineland stream

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Wed Jul 29 13:25:45 CDT 2009


Yes!  Well said.  This is the point he makes over and over again.

 Rich said:
>maybe being a grown-up only means a rough acceptance of that irrefutable
sadness

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:19 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Right.  Systems of Control Daisy chain.  And living off the grid is pretty
> well impossible.  And his portrayal of the Anarchist Colony in AtD is beyond
> laughable, and he knows it.  But there it sits, embarrassingly, in the
> text.  Author's failing?  No.  Author's point.
>
>  On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:07 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> He likes anarchism too, and they kill people also, as seen in AtD.  But he
>> doesn't like killing people, so he doesn't like anarchism.
>>
>
>  On 7/29/09, Campbel Morgan <campbelmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I say it doesn't much matter because it's just another daisy on the
> > chain of managerial capitalism and cartels, the railroad and
> > electricity monopolies, mafia, those who control, the Systems of
> > Control ... and the like.
>
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