V-2nd, Chap 8. Yoyodyne is America

[Mark Kohut]

This is not much of an insight as TRP lays it out quite
overtly but I feel like glossing it a bit so I will.

P. 227 Chiclitz Toy Company, late 40's, i.e early postwar 'boom' years
when America was being filled with baby boomers and their toys. Becomes
a government-contracting conglomerate. Big Business and the State theme.

Does anyone else remember gyroscopes? "a simultaneous and psychopathic
craving"--psychopathic? More of TRPs developing psychohistory, it would seem? 

Toys: I am reminded of what electronics as men's playthings are called. 

Dyne= a unit of force, an engineer tells Chiclitz.  "Equivalently, the dyne is 
defined 
as "the force required to accelerate a mass of one gram at a rate of 
onecentimetre per second squared": --wikipedia

Force as in rocket-launching. Force as in overcoming gravity, as anti-entropic.

Yoyodyne, the name. Contains "the idea of force, enterprise, engineering skill 
and rugged individualism."
Aren't words like these often invoked to 'explain' the American character? 
 Enterprise: entrepreneurism
that backbone of American business...engineering skill: practical scientific 
work, emphasis on practical
along with 'rugged individualism", a telling phrase when offered as part of the 
meaning of Chiclitz company
since such early American settler traits--from the myth of Davy Crockett to 
Jefferson's yeoman farmers---
are what are lost in big companies or caught in the 'going nowhereness' of 
yoyoing---which, of course, TRP
has defined earlier in this novel....