Late capitalism a quote

[Mark Kohut]

Another reason Bleeding Edge is very beyond "hating capitalism" is  that
Pynchon shows what you write AS WELL as
how unknown BIG money works to bring death and to stabilize....."human
sacrifices on the top of" has been true of
capitalism since it was industrial capitalism".....and, as you have pointed
out in the past, family and life continue in BE...

On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 8:49 AM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> you all blame capitalism like you blame religion, state, technology or the
> matrix. easy to offload all that angst onto a concept. maybe it makes you
> feel better but nothing changes, does it? most of us dont want radical
> change. the simple matter is whatever we live in provides to most. that may
> be hard to stomach. but it's true. prophets are the biggest hypocrites
>
> rich
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> On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 12:04 AM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>
> > This topic came up earlier and I just found this quote in conversation
> > about Igor paying Maxine for warning about Madoff pyramid scheme. Madoff
> > had a Pynchonian name without even trying. One of Madoff's kids was at a
> > school where I teach an evening  art class . Very hard on him.
> >
> > March
> > “No, I meant late capitalism is a pyramid racket on a global scale, the
> > kind of pyramid you do human sacrifices up on top of, meantime getting
> the
> > suckers to believe it’s all gonna go on forever.”
> >
> >
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