The Art of War

[rich]

Americans love war

is this not Major Marvey at least in tone and vernacular?

http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/speeches/General_George_Patton/

second point: big commercials for Call of Duty: Special Ops where you
and your colleagues at work along with Kobe Bryant and other celebs
can act your own "special actions" with high power weaponry including
the shy little officer secretary who after blasting away with her
automatic weapon is seen with smile in the advanced throes of some
sort of orgasm. there is no blood, there are no bodies, just the
sexual impulse directed elsewhere, towards a destruction with no
consequences which some may argue is a fine metaphor for recent
American foreign policy--rape, fuck, maim, and then love.

third point:  America is a country, still in infancy, who has
benefited from the folly of other generations, without earning
outright such privilege, and youngsters with means and no experience
is no different from the arrogant little shits who we worship as
celebs whether within the beltway, in hollywood, or with birds on
their shoulders.

last point: for the child to be born which do we want it to be:  the
savior or just gas--that old Globocnik trick.

it's been the gas for far too long
rich

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 5:47 AM,  <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:
> There is the "original" by Sun Tzu, of the 6th
> century- still popular with west point and wharton
> types.
>
> Then there is art about war- too many novels
> to name, GR may be one, and also, artists
> unabashedly in love with war, for example,
> the romantic Herman Melville. See especially
> Melville's poetry. He was, like most americans,
> truly smitten.
>
> There are war parasites, like Chris Hedges-
> didn't we see an incarnation of Chris, at
> dinner in GR, just prior to the Pus Pudding?-
> who have made a nice living and garnished
> a reputation covering war, only to change
> hat's when the opportunity presented itself.
>
> (But I'm unfair. We should all be free to evolve.)
>
> Any art is subject to  aestheric considerations,
> and war, like politics, is no exception. A good
> primer, in that regard, is Walter Benjamin's
>
>  The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical
>   Reproduction
>
> Definitely worth the effort of a close read- it
> should be required for any course on Pynchon.
>
> Recently, of course, there was the widely hyped
> "Mother of War," or, "Mother of All Wars." Which,
> I guess (conveniently leaving Adam out of it),
> might be construed to be Eve- or at least
> Roger Mexico's grandmother, or something.
>
> I keep thinking about Hamlet's mom, not quite
> Swedish, but a sucker for convenience, and, I'm
> told, able to whip up a shortstack second to none.
> {But don't get in her way when she's got that fryin'
> pan handy!)
>
> Peace. In small homeopathic doses...
>