"The fucking fascists who call the shots haven't stopped needing races to hate each other, it's how they keep wages down, and rents high, and all the power over on the East Side, and everyrthing ugly and brain-dead just the way they like it."
>>8255912
I suppose that they're trying to get at rich people benefit from racism because it keeps the ignorant from looking at them and the marginalized stuck fighting millennia-old struggles when they could otherwise be ascending to better lives and threatening their dosh?
>>8255927
That's it?
>>8255929
Makes sense to me; I mean, the only people who benefit from low social mobility are those who are already wealthy and powerful.
I feel like today's Zeitgeist is truly one of ideological warfare; the rich and influential goad the poor and disempowered to take up tained ideals, then set them upon one another to keep them down.
Truly the only solution is to purge the political class, totally.
>>8255912
If everyone loved each other, it would be fucking chaos.
Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.
>>8256056
this is pathetically unpynchonesque
>>8256056
There's one thing and one thing only that the mods could do to immensely improve the board, instantly, overnight, and that's facilitate more threads about David Foster Wallace. Create them, nurture the ones that exist, guide the discussions, and make sure they stay on track. If we're here to discuss literature, ultimately, we are here to discuss David Foster Wallace. There is no way for a person to grasp the full implications of Infinite Jest and not realize this. We're talking about the smartest man who ever lived. You must realize this. It's not a joke anymore. We're seeing the world degenerate further and further into chaos, and we're standing by and watching it happen. You want to fix this board? You want to fix the world? You want to fix your life? You need only take one step: read Infinite Jest. There is no substitute for hard work, and that's what Wallace requires of you if you are to understand him. If you are to understand not just him, but the world. We're not talking about escapist literature, fan fiction, genre nonsense. We're talking about saving our lives. We're talking about meditating on God. We're talking about communing with the primary presence. This is not an issue to be treated lightly.
This is a marxist thing, apaz wealth inequality between employers and workers is higher in areas where there's wage inequality between blacks and whites ( this was a while ago ). The basic idea is racism divides workers and thus reduces their bargaining power
>>8255912
That the republicans and anyone who supports them are either manipulative cunts or ugly and brain-dead.
