More proof that there are no fascists

[alice wellintown]

Superstructure?

On Friday, January 25, 2013, Michael Bailey wrote:

> what would Pynchon say?
>
>  in V., he suggests the US is the proud possessor of a magnificent
> flotilla and air power.  these things are indisputable - unlike the
> nature of truth, beauty and justice - and allow the claiming of
> various rights inside and beyond its borders, which are decided upon
> by various functionaries in Washington DC.  In the book we experience
> DC as a place where a date-able woman wearing Bermuda shorts is among
> the people our hero (at least in the sense of we are sort of rooting
> for him) Benny Profane has contact with.  The suggestion is that the
> moral truths that animate the book (and BP's quest for them) live
> inside the armory rather than the armory living inside them...and they
> can be found by those who seek, if they aren't distracted.  The
> self-delusions, momentary pleasures, and deep-down body urge to
> procreate which continually animate BP's awareness and among which his
> profounder moral truths occasionally surface may in fact be
> correlatives to the military superstructure of society; but just as
> the base may be obscured by the superstructure, still, though
> invisible, it remains underneath and all the rest is founded upon it
>
>
>
> --
> "I am a whiz with pudding in large quantities.  But I don't foretell
> the future." - Miles Blundell
>
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