It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted … secretly, it was being dictated instead by the needs of technology … by a conspiracy between human beings and techniques, by something that needed the energy-burst of war, crying, "Money be damned, the very life of {insert name of Nation} is at stake," but meaning, most likely, dawn is nearly here, I need my night's blood, my funding, funding, ahh more, more … The real crises were crises of allocation and priority, not among firms – it was only staged to look that way – but among the different Technologies, Plastics, Electronics, Aircraft, and their needs which are understood only by the ruling elite …
( Thomas Pynchon )
[ Gravity's Rainbow ]
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