Meet the New Boss (Pynchon's THEY or The Firm is Dead)

[rich]

the waste, the stupidity, the folly that masks itself as honest
debate, the corruption here in America that's to be lamented. just an
honest emotion. its everywhere, we talk about America because that's
what we know and Pynchon';s lament of how did it happen here when the
odds should've been this was the last place where it would happen is
our lament, no?. naivete for sure but doesn't make one any less bummed
by it all. Pynchon thankfully keeps the soap box out of view for most
of the time

rich

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 1:28 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> It saddens me when people refuse to see the obvious. That's a recurrent TRP
>> theme that I [and Dave] like to point out.
>
> If people refuse to "see the obvious", maybe, just maybe, itz cause
> they do see the obvious. Yeah, like maybe people see, maybe even more
> than you give them credit for. So, when you get all sad about it,
> well, itz kinda like them preachers tellin us all that we're gonna end
> up dead. Yeah, we know about that and global warming and we dig Pete
> Seeger's song, now every every every body, even if we don't like his
> ugly sweater and his dying man's voice. We get it man. Itz obvious.
> Right? That most don't want to see the sky or sea just now, let alone,
> be dragged down to the shore to look at the oil and plastic bottles
> all smeared with lizard scum and brown bloggog, don't mean they don't
> care or ain't cool. We know, we ain't busy bein born, we don't need no
> street preacher with fifty pounds of BP stapled to his heart reminding
> us that the end is near. Hell, when P gets on his soap box, like he
> does about technology and the bomb, I wanna stuff his face in an
> Indian shit pile by the tracks where poor tailors dump their mound of
> troubles. Itz America, dude; you got it good, just make us laugh and
> build something beautiful. Poetry is the stuff to drink for people who
> know how to think and who can see the obvious without some patronizing
> preacher quoting from GR chapter and verse.
>