911 Prewarning

[Lemuel Underwing]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:14 PM, <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:

> I witnessed the towers just after the first plane hit. All the conspiracy
> theories are rubbish- mostly because they detract from the real issue, the
> symbolic power of their destruction. Al Queda was hip to this as early as
> 1993- when the morons tried to bring one of them down with a garage bomb
> planted in a rented vehicle, after which they then tried to recoup the
> deposit on! The only people stupider than Al Queda were the various
> security agencies charged with protecting us from them.
>
> Pynchon's most specific reference to the symbolic power of the World Trade
> Center occurs in Chapter 11 (as a self-signifier of moral bankruptcy) of
> M&D- the twin gallows, shimmering on the horizon of St. Helena, the two
> terms- capitalism and slavery- so essential for the western enterprise.
> Reading it post-911 is enough to cause goose bumps- prescient. And don't
> forget that steady wind blowing in (back) from the coast.  So stop changing
> the subject. Al Queda was well aware of the location of our "crotch" and
> it took them two kicks, but they finally caught us right in the balls. If
> there was a conspiracy it was between those flea bitten fanatic
> scumbags and our own stupidity.
>
> Since 911, any critique of the capitalist enterprise has been forced to
> walk gingerly around the issue of sympathy for the devil. But coincidence
> works in strange ways, and the demonic, despite its rabid hatred, is
> sometimes twisted into the agency of The Good- much to its own chargrin.
>
>






Oh I am sorry I argued so with you earlier,-- as Much of this seems Spot On
...

Except for the part about it being complete without Theories (perhaps not
so much 'Conspiracy' but 'Under-the-Table-Theories') opposed to the Popular
Hypothesis.
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