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

[David Morris]

Thank you, Alice.

When I read that "it saddens me" line, the self-righteous & superior
tone just pissed me off a bit too (but I decided to keep quiet).  And
enlisting Pynchon as your mentor in this attitude just makes it worse
(no offense meant).

OK, there are a lot of ill-informed people out there, bamboozled by
those w/ much to gain by the Confidence game.  But there are a lot
more that get it.  Unfortunately it takes a lot of outrage to get The
Street to do its thing, so shit reigns as status quo.

They are They because They have the power to bamboozle, threat,
dazzle, etc.  **But the Counterforce ain't the Counter-elite.**  Some
of the bamboozled wish to remain ignorant for selfish reasons.  Again,
they are the minority.  The rest are just trying to survive.

David Morris

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 12:28 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 TR 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.