It means that this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, 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 […] [Gravity’s Rainbow, 521]