Advocations (was Re: Mondaugen's law)

[Lycidas at worldnet.att.net]

Henry Musikar wrote:
> 
> >From: Lycidas at worldnet.att.net
> >Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 11:55:17 -0600
> >
> >Pynchon is objective in his perspective. Satirist are
> >sometimes accused of being aloof, of not advocating change,
> >but this rarely the case, they are also often accused of
> >being sick or nuts or misanthropes, or paranoids--see the
> >strange case of Mr. Swift, but Pynchon advocates an awful
> >lot in my opinion and he is not only about tickling us out
> >of our favorite follies and rubbing our noses in our foul
> >humanity, he is a 60s dude I think, at least in that he
> >advocates that we educate ourselves about what's goin on,
> >oh, what's goin on, and do what we can about it. He's
> >certainly doing what he can best.
> 
> Sure P is very 60's, but not exactly a "storm the ramparts, I know the
> answer" version. I only see him advocating a few lowest common denominator
> assertions:
> 
> Freedom is good
> Hurting people (without their consent) is bad
> Knowledge is good
> Fun is good
> Keeping cool is practical
> Caring is good
> 
> AssBfore,
> 
> HenryM

OK, so he advocates these common denominators, so what. I
think Jerry Springer advocates these common denominators
too, isn't there a difference?