I saw in the internet some days ago a big fight between two companies that were saying that one of their new product was really of the other company. The company that currently produces and sells to the public the new product is being accused by the other company that they stole the idea from them and are using it now as if it was theirs. I am sure this type of problem happens a lot between rival companies. It may be a strategy of the company to try to demoralize the other company by making the other company appear as if they were stealers in the eyes of the public. This can be true because in today's economy advertisement and public appearance of the companies affect a lot their incomes. Another scenario that can happen is that the accusation is actually true. If the accusation is true then it means that one company stole the ideas from the other. For me it would be really frustrating if you have been working in a product for a long time. You have dedicated a lot of your income to this product because it will be something new that the world has never seen before. Suddenly the day before you are going to announce the product you discover that another person has stolen your plans and shown that product as his. Yoyodyne Inc. is also a company that wants to increase their income. They do this in many ways as an ordinary company but they also violate patent and copyrights of the author. According to Pynchon "Koteks explained how every engineer, in signing the Yoyodyne contract, also signed away the patent rights to any inventions he might come up with" (pg.67). When I read this I remembered Jesus' saying of not doing to others what you don't want them to do to you. In this case Yoyodyne is doing the exact opposite of what this maxim says. Yoyodyne definitely doesn't want other companies or people stealing their ideas and inventions but, they do want to steal and take away the inventions that people make while they are working for them. It is also a way of perpetuating the inventor to the company. If you have invented something and you happen to be really fond of it but, its known discoverer is Yoyodyne and not you. If you happen to have this situation it would be more difficult for you to leave because you can't just part without your invention and there is no way of taking it away from the company's claws.
There was a part of the book that I found was really related to my life. There is a part where Fallopian is talking with Oedipa about Koteks and what he had said. In the explanation of Fallopian there is a quotation that says "What's it like, Oedipa, being all alone in a nightmare like that" (pg.70)? I really related to this quotation because there is also a nightmare that I have some times. I don't really know when it happens but I have had the same dream a couple of times. The nightmare I have is that I am in my house with my parents and a very strong tornado comes. There is a lot of barking from the dogs of my neighborhood and I do not why this is. I look outside the window and I see a very large tornado coming straight at me. When it hits I am blown away to a very different place. I look around to see familiar faces and I see no one I know. I am lost now and I do not even know where. I try to talk to someone in Spanish and after seeing no response I try in English. Having both languages failed I realized that I was alone in this new world and had to figure my own way out. After remembering this awful nightmare I really felt compassion for Koteks and what his life had become. After this I started to think of the many movies I have seen where there is only the last survivor in the world. I started to imagine myself in that situation and I definitely concluded that I would never like to be the last survivor in the earth and be all alone.
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