BE -- "death wish for the planet" why the internet?

[ish mailian]

One way to look at P's use of events that become conspiracy is that it
doesn't much matter what the truth is, even if conclusive and
definitive proof exists, a smoking gun or whatever, it doesn't much
matter. Who killed JFK? It doesn't matter. Who is responsible for 11
September? It doesn't matter. What matters is the narratives, the
conspiracies, the competing narratives and how we see other narratives
and what that tells us about us. For example, Maxine  is satirized
because she thinks that Ernie still believes that the Rosenbergs were
innocent. They weren't. She may have been, but he wasn't. But that
doesn't much matter. They are both dead, But the conspiracy to execute
them, that matters. That makes Ernie's conspiracy, his paranoia,
closer to Pynchon's, but ti doesn't make it Pynchon's conspiracy.
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