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

Ray Easton raymond.lee.easton at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 16:05:03 CST 2016


Yes.

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On March 8, 2016 3:55:41 PM ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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