/lit/ - Literature

>>8978610
>But that's not true

War, The Rocket, The Rocket State and The System are all named as a force beyond any individual's control, a secular religion worshipped by the likes of Blicero (human sacrificer, crucifier of Gottfried on the rocket) Jamf (national socialist chemistry and The Void) and implicitly Hitler, The Soviet Union, and the Nazi Party, (state capiatlism!!) and a personified deity (always capitalized, The War, The Rocket) at times showing consciousness.
The Counterforce ultimately fails because The War has no point of defusal. Pointsman is a face of War's madness but he is one insignificant (and archaic) outgrowth of an endless network. Anarchism too, helmed by Squadolizzi and his crew and giving life in The Zone is shown as another failed opposition to The System, either doomed from the start by naivete or crushed out by the power of Imperialist Nations that pick any unoccupied zone apart.
Kekule's dream is a pretty straightforward new age critique of Capitalism, our material and imperialist obsessions angering the Great Serpent, and the Shell conspiracy in Part 2 as well as Tchitcherine's analysis of the Rocket State (Russia buying from the same war suppliers as Germany, such as IG Farben) and Enzian's paranoid ramblings while riding his motorcycle on Speed spell it out pretty clearly.
The postmodernism angle has to do with Mexico and his cheap nihilism, there's a lot of emphasis on the cold forces of new rolling over the ideals of the past - 'The real and only fucking is done on paper', also Pudding and Pointsman and the V2 bomb which sounds off before exploding and characterizes the postmodern world inacessible to anything but inhuman mathematics (the poisson distribution!) - which further enables the autonomous running of the self fulfilling system of economy fueled war:

"Don't forget the real business of the War is buying and selling."

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