"What's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?" (323)

We've talked about it before, but more and more as we keep reading I think DeLillo seems to be saying that paranoia is a good thing, that establishing connections to things is absolutely necessary. This quote in particular says that making connections that maybe aren't there is actually necessary to have a sense of purpose in life. The connection between the 'enormous' powers of the world and the relative insignificance of your own life is probably not a real one, but still DeLillo says we need it. If this is true then what we are looking for in life is not truth, as many philosophers would have us think. What we're looking for is connection, which is obviously a huge theme in Underworld. Connections between people, events, and now big and small forces...