sorta Watchmen, sorta P

[Lawrence Bryan]

While reading the Shock Doctrine last year, I also read Ha-Joon  
Chang's "Bad Samaritans, the Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History  
of Capitalism". Chang takes on the Friedman's, both Tom and Milt; Tom  
for his "The Lexus and the Olive Tree" and Milt for essentially every  
thing he wrote about free trade. A good read with a different point of  
view by an economist at Cambridge.

Lawrence

On Mar 7, 2009, at 11:18 PM, Jill Adams wrote:

> I never realized how sinister and real the covert CIA missions to  
> undo a man's personality were until I started reading Shock  
> Doctrine/ Naomi Klein.  Some of my more conspiracy theory friends  
> made claims about these sorts of things... But I tossed a lot of  
> that stuff out with the mixmash of wild things they'd say, Roswell,  
> Chemtrails, believing that yeah, probably there was a little shock  
> treatment and a couple pills or so.. I had no idea the quantity, the  
> conniving and orchestration that went into it.. so evil..
> I'm not alone, Shock Doctrine swept through my sleepy suburban  
> library, hundreds perhaps thousands of holds have been fulfilled and  
> people are reading it. It's just the plainspoken clarity of Shock  
> Doctrine, it doesn't come off in that sweaty palmed hysteric way  
> that my conspiracy theory friends act when they start going off.
>
> what is that mechanism... that I have noticed, that I will <not> be  
> persuaded by emotional claims..i don't know whether I am more  
> disgusted with myself for not really seeking the truth, putting up a  
> defense against knowing, or if I'm more disgusted with the reality  
> of the bald existence of the shock doctrine.
> Maybe it was easier to believe that They didn't have Their shit  
> together enough to wage such scientific experiments, thow big levers  
> of power. but They very much do have Their shit together.
>
> -Jill
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Mar 7, 2009 7:47 PM
>> To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Subject: sorta Watchmen, sorta P
>>
>> okay, so I got the other Watchmen title on DVD, the original
>> illustrator oversaw the addition of a little motion to the original
>> frames...
>>
>> anyway, just one comment.  If that was a real prison psychologist,  
>> ol'
>> Rorschach would be so full of Thorazine...
>>
>> having personal experience with at least that phase of Frenesi's
>> experience, I'm here to tell you that They have stuff that can
>> obliterate defiance pretty thoroughly.  Don't know why she would get
>> it on with Vond in the first place, but the career change and
>> different personality is really no stretch of the imagination at all.
>> And if that is "blaming the drugs" then I guess I'm guilty of that
>> weakness too, like governments and Frenesi.
>> Pretty powerful stuff, those neuroleptics.
>>
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>> -- 
>> - "Be groovy or B movie" - the old 24fps signoff
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