Frenesi's Kinks

[Michael Bailey]

Robin Landseadel wrote:
> Paul Mackin wrote:
>
>> I'm curious as to whether p-listers credit with some kind of validity
>> Brock's insights about his young antagonists.
>
> I'm working on that one, but the short answer is: Yes.

but in another sense, Hells no!

>
> Brock has some insight into the hustle:
>
>        Brock Yond's genius was to have seen in the activities of the
>        sixties left not threats to order but unacknowledged desires for
>        it. While the Tube was proclaiming youth revolution against
>        parents of all kinds and most viewers were accepting this story,
>        Brock saw the deep - if he'd allowed himself to feel it, the
>        sometimes touching - need only to stay children forever, safe
>        inside some extended national Family.
>        Vineland, page 269
>

capital "F" ?  Like "Manson Family"?
Like Fascism?
as Ditzah says, "It's the whole Reagan program, isn't it - dismantle
the New Deal, reverse the effects of world War II, restore fascism at
home and around the world..."
(so I still think there's an aspect beyond submissiveness or sexual
attraction in Frenesi's attraction to Vond: he is the beach she is
hitting, at great personal cost, and I really don't want to dismiss
the D-Day overtone)(Reichian insights about the orgone flow vs the
Fascist body armor also approach this Normandy beach, and They burned
Reich's books in real life like they burned 24fps archives in
Vineland)

(265) or page 314 "the scabland garrison state the green free America
of their childhoods even then was turning into"

-  the need is mentioned together with the tragic consequences of
accepting Brock's, or Reagan's, offer to fill it.

Like Che's stepfather...transparent abusers...with no sense of
reciprocal obligation...
imagine how desperately you'd have to want that family feeling to
accept their offer [so, yes, it's a valid insight, but...]
thank goodness Prairie's learned enough history to at least begin
rejecting Brock by the ending

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