"What I really want to get at is the ordinary thing, the ordinary life behind the thing. Because that's the heart and soul of what we're doing here." - page 77
Prior to this passage, Klara Sax is engaged in an interview about her latest film project to paint decommissioned Cold War era bombers. She is discuss how maybe the Cold War held the world together and created a way of measuring things. Us. vs. Them.
"Many of the things that were anchored to the balance of power and the balance of terror seem to be undone, unstuck. Things have no limits now. Money has no limits. I don't understand money anymore. Money has no limits. I don't understand money anymore. Money is undone. Violence is undone, violence is easier now, it's uprooted, out of control, it has no measure anymore, it has no level of values." - page 76
On Money, Delillo was a little ahead of his time in predicting how things might turn out in new millennium. This passage connects with the work of author New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and his theory on economics from his book The World is Flat. He writes, "The convergence of technology and events has allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalization."
Delillo's mention of violence in the quote also relates to the modern world. The most catastrophic event for the United States in the new millennium was the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq/Afghanistan war. There is no clear adversary in the world which we live now. Maybe in some ways the US was better off when there were clear defined super powers. When the image and stock piling of weapons and the fear of war was a better reality of random acts of terror. These decommissioned bombers are relics to a world that no longer exists.
"Some times I see something so moving I know I'm not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave." - page 83
"It's the special skill of the adolescent to imagine the end of the world as an adjunct to his own discontent." -page 88
Prior to this passage, Klara Sax is engaged in an interview about her latest film project to paint decommissioned Cold War era bombers. She is discuss how maybe the Cold War held the world together and created a way of measuring things. Us. vs. Them.
"Many of the things that were anchored to the balance of power and the balance of terror seem to be undone, unstuck. Things have no limits now. Money has no limits. I don't understand money anymore. Money has no limits. I don't understand money anymore. Money is undone. Violence is undone, violence is easier now, it's uprooted, out of control, it has no measure anymore, it has no level of values." - page 76
On Money, Delillo was a little ahead of his time in predicting how things might turn out in new millennium. This passage connects with the work of author New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and his theory on economics from his book The World is Flat. He writes, "The convergence of technology and events has allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalization."
Delillo's mention of violence in the quote also relates to the modern world. The most catastrophic event for the United States in the new millennium was the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq/Afghanistan war. There is no clear adversary in the world which we live now. Maybe in some ways the US was better off when there were clear defined super powers. When the image and stock piling of weapons and the fear of war was a better reality of random acts of terror. These decommissioned bombers are relics to a world that no longer exists.
"Some times I see something so moving I know I'm not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave." - page 83
"It's the special skill of the adolescent to imagine the end of the world as an adjunct to his own discontent." -page 88
“Even the lowest
household trash is closely observed. People look at their garbage differently
now, seeing every bottle and crushed carton in a planetary context.” – page 88
"The corporation
is supposed to take us outside of ourselves. We design these organized bodies
to respond to the marketplace, face foursquare into the world. But things tend
to drift dimly inward. Gossip, rumor, promotions, personalities, it's only natural,
isn't it-all the human lapses that take up space the company soul. But the
world persists, the world heals in a way. You feel the contact points around
you, the caress of linked grids that gave you a sense of order and command.
It's there in the warbling banks of phones, in the fax machines and
photocopiers and all the oceanic logic stored in your computer. Bemoan
technology all you want. It expands your self-esteem and connects you in your
well-pressed suit to the things that slip through the world otherwise
unperceived." - page 89
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