Coates says of the Dreamers: “Plunder has matured into habit…

Coates says of the Dreamers: “Plunder has matured into habit and addiction…the people who could author the mechanized death of our ghettos…then engineer their own forgetting, must inevitably plunder much more. This is not a belief in prophecy but in the seductiveness of cheap gasoline” (150). He goes on to say that the Dreamers will continue by plundering: