Fwd: Cheerleader prolegomenon for the GR read.

[Mark Kohut]

Offline, a fine-combed reader diplomatically questioned my overly
simplified line about
BLEEDING EDGE "has little but consolidation of wealth"....
BLEEDING EDGE has a lot more that that, of course. I should have written
something
to the effect, the NYC and world of BE is one of consolidated wealth. I
threw off these
observations to show what I meant to suggest:

The cover and its massive computer "towers", the insect bus around the
buildings of NYC and no relative poor (except Maxine?),
big start-up monies and money as the murder motivation?; Maxine's work
itself exists because of wealth, for example. The (only) paranoid 9/11
theory involves financial anomalies from just before....
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Look at the deepest resonances of P's crystal and steel opening in this new
piece!
Great artists find the symbolic forms that say the most; that have the
deepest, right resonances.
Images ultimately that carry meanings upon meanings:

Pull quote:
"Inequality has in a sense crystallized in the forms of glass and steel
residential buildings carefully designed to glitter. In growing height and
number, they have come to stand for a consolidation of wealth that is
seemingly insoluble. Or, to use another fluid metaphor, a wealth that is
unlikely to trickle down."

http://www.thestraddler.com/201514/piece2.php


Progress & Poverty invoked. Besides the GR resonances, this is why BLEEDING
EDGE has
little but consolidation of wealth. The 'rest is[was] too high"---TRP in
Slow Learner
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