NP: Noam Chomsky on Corona, Neoliberalism, Trump etc.

[ish mailian]

I guess the conflation of the pandemic with war is now impossible to
prevent since  governments, and their media mouthpieces are empowered
by emergency and crisis and can push the narrative, but I do see that
some astute people have been trying to push back at the rhetoric of
the social media madness. Bill Gates and Paul Krugman, Ben Bernanke
and  J. Powell .... have been pushing back at the war rhetoric and the
recession and depression talk. We are not in a recession or depression
anymore than we at war. We are in Pandemic, economies have been shut
down,. The condoning of war rhetoric from Chomsky, as I said earlier,
is disappointing. But Chomsky, especially as he's aged and become
fixed on his hobby horse, is more and more prone to the same kind of
rhetoric his targets employ, but anyway, the famous quote from
Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, it seems to me, about war and
profiteering and the like, seems completely misplaced here.

Anyone read Occupy Pynchon?




On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 5:29 PM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > "Market signals were clear: There’s no profit in preventing a future
> > catastrophe. "
>
> “Don't forget the real business of war is buying and selling. The murdering
> and violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals.
> The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways. It serves as
> spectacle, as diversion from the real movements of the War. It provides raw
> material to be recorded into History, so that children may be taught
> History as sequences of violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared
> for the adult world. Best of all, mass death's a stimulous to just ordinary
> folks, little fellows, to try 'n' grab a piece of that Pie while they're
> still here to gobble it up. The true war is a celebration of markets.”
>
> On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 12:54 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Even the neoliberal war machine predicted the pandemic.
> >
> > https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1247133215233576960?s=20
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 5:35 AM Thomas Eckhardt <
> > thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > "Market signals were clear: There’s no profit in preventing a future
> > > catastrophe. "
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > https://truthout.org/articles/chomsky-ventilator-shortage-exposes-the-cruelty-of-neoliberal-capitalism/
> > > --
> > > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
> > >
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> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
> >
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