The Crying of Lot 49 Group Read 2024

[Joseph Tracy]

> On May 25, 2024, at 3:48 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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> p. 37, Harper Perennial paperback.....
> 
> "Sure he was against industrial capitalism. So are we.
> Didn't it lead, inevitably, to Marxism? Underneath, both are part of the
> same creeping horror"
> 
> What is the underlying truth of both of them? A theoretical abstractionism?
> ...is that the creeping horror,

   The way I see it, both Metz’s observation and Fallopians makes some kind of sense. Marx didn’t write “Communism” He wrote Das Kapital.  But he did not want to end Industrial production, just distribute the wealth  evenly and dignify industrial work. Fallopian seems to reject  industrial civilization itself  , but It is probably mostly seeming. It’s   dubious that any kind of coherence can come from Fallopian or that he cares to seek it. He is disgruntled with the thing he is embedded in but doesn’t seem to really want to walk away. He wants more to go back to settler colonialism, a primitive imperialism of military dominance. The anti-communism of the time was so rampant that it led to Birchers accusing Eisenhower of being a Commie. Meanwhile Mike Fallopian works at Yoyodyne, and buys swastikas that come from a store owned by Inverarity. He tells OM the Inverarity probably set the whole Trystero and W.A.S.T.E episodes up. He is like an armed gnostic who thinks of Inverarity as a DemiGod with impossible levels of control. His hero is so ridiculous that OM spews in laughter.
> words that don't signify reality just meet as words?...the words are not
> the territory.....THAT creeping
> horror akin to the possible horror Oedipa is trying to track down....
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