Pynchon on globalisation? (was Re: pynchon-l-digest V2 #1794

[jbor]

I'm reluctant to conjecture about Pynchon's attitude towards *current* 
trends in international politics and the freeing up of world markets (which
is where this whole thread began), mainly because he hasn't written, or at
least published, anything about it. Yet. I think his conception of history
might be a bit more subtle than merely overlaying what was going on in 1890
onto the current day, but I agree there are always warnings and premonitions
to be read into what he *has* written. I get the impression that he's not
particularly impressed with "British trade policy back during the last
century" (GR 346.17), the League of Nations ('Mondaugen's Story') or the
partitioning up of Germany (G5) after WWII, or even those Nuremberg Trials:
and these are all instances of powerful nations or groups of nations
dictating the terms of life to subject populations, of "victors" ganging up
on "victims". He certainly hasn't slammed the UN or any global organisations
that I can recall, however.

Kristallnacht was also an example of "collective political action" which
gets a look-in in _GR_ by the way. It's simply not clear-cut.

best

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>From: Mike Weaver <mikeweaver at gn.apc.org>
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> All laudable acts of humanity at an individual level,but collective
> political action is what we are discussing, which is a different level to
> individual actions.
> Try again please.