IVIV BIG DISCUSSION [spoiler] Compare & Contrast section, P. 32

[John Bailey]

And let's also not forget how They disgraced the real heroes of Doc's
generation - not the labor movement icons, but the entertainment
industry foax he idolised as a kid and teen. Tainting John Garfield
and other stars he would have grown up with in the late 40s and 50s
must have had an impact on this generation, surely. People wanted to
be those stars - they still do - so one of the best ways of changing
people's politics is to get 'em when they're young. No wonder Doc
maintains such a weird mixture of freedom and authoritarian action.

The lines preceding Otto's quote below: "Doc knew these people, he'd
seen enough of them in the course of business. They went out to
collect cash debts, they broke ribcages, they got people fired, they
kept an unforgiving eye on anything that might become a threat."

Doc sure knows those people. He used to do one of those things, and
wasn't far off some of the others.

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Otto<ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
> It's really about work:
>
> "If everything in this dream of prerevolution was in fact doomed to
> end and the faithless money-driven world to reassert its control over
> all the lives it felt entitled to touch, fondle, and molest, it would
> be agents like these, dutiful and silent, out doing the shitwork,
> who'd make it happen." (129-130)
>