Globalization?

[Jane Sweet]

Another P concern is Labor, Unions, betrayal, nationalism,
corporate technocracy, but not globalization. 


The social upheavals of the 1960s--centering around rapid
changes in thinking about race, gender relations,sexuality,
nationalism and the American military, the power
of corporate technocracy and marketing--constituted
America's central trauma for the New Right.  All the
Reaganist themes return to the 60s and attempt in some way
to undo the incomplete changes of that decade. The social
movements of the 60s failed, in Pynchon's account--as did
earlier radical movements--because of
certain betrayals.  And political betrayals in _Vineland_
are inevitably linked to sexual betrayals; in fact, to
failures of sexual purity or chastity.
	
Cultural Trauma and the "Timeless Burst": Pynchon's Revision
of Nostalgia in *Vineland*  by James Berger