Pynchon analysis

Pynchon's voice: the counterculture, the C. Wright Mills sociology, the Weberian analysis of bureaucracy, the technologist, all brilliantly cascading into this particularly pithy analysis of the War:

The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways. It serves as spectacle, as diversion from the real movements of the War. It provided raw material to be recorded into History, so that children may be taught History as sequences of violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared for the adult world. Best of all, mass death’s a stimulus to just ordinary folks, little fellows, to try ‘n’ grab a piece of that Pie while there still here to gobble it up” (Gravity's Rainbow 105)

What does Benjamin say in the Theses on History that Pynchon doesn't say here?