Advocations (was Re: Mondaugen's law)

[Henry Musikar]

>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
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