RE. VLVL(6) Children of the Revolution

[Paul Mackin]

On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, David Morris wrote: (about rj's disapproving view of
our merry band of revolutionaries)

> Rj's characterizations above could have been written by Brock Vond himself. 
>  I think its pretty clear that all the foibles of the 24fps and the PR3 are 
> intended to endear, not indict.  How boring would it be were it otherwise.
> 
Possibly true but Brock presents himself as a fairly astute observer of
his sworn enemies, which may put rj in good company analysis-wise if what
you say it true. 24fps is so obviously ill-equipped to survive in the real
world (except for having DL with them, maybe). Something about the 
children of the world being wiser in their generation than the children of
light--giving our kids the benefit of the doubt as to being on the side of
light as I think we and Pynchon are inclined to do. Pynchon himself is the
ASTUTE OBSERVER. Movement people I knew and knew of--even the more serious
and intelligent ones whose league our kids are not in--often DID take
delight in 'ripping off the system' in mean and trivial ways and often
were bikering and disdainful of not only of those they were supposedly
opposing but also of each other, which to my mind--at least in 
retrospect--is not endearing. (probably true of revolutionies in a lot of
fields of endeavor for example some open-source software hacker types even
whom I'm generally sympathetic to but sometimes find obnoxious because
they seem to think they're so much smarter than everyone else) 

What does anyone imagine P is trying to do here? I have a lot of thinking
(and reading) to do.

			P.