Source material for Gravity's Rainbow?

[Paul Mackin]

Yes the left can be every bit as conspiracy hungry as the right. Also
sometimes the left conspiracy theorist will shift alligiance and become a
right conpiracy theorist. It's not as hard as it looks.An example seems to
have been Mark Lane who in the later years got involved with the Liberty
Lobby. (this was discussed here earlier) For an article on conspiracy on the
left see below. Note that Pacifica Radio listeners may want to view this
with caution.  Hate to make reference to anything appearing on the Internet
but this time will make an exception.

P.

 http://www.publiceye.org/rightwoo/rwooz6-02.html

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Wright AIA" <mwaia at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: Source material for Gravity's Rainbow?


> Howdy
> Hofstadter is certainly relevant to all of P's work, if it doesn't need
> to be cited as an actual 'source'. His particular critique examined
> populist right-wing paranoia. The "paranoid style" also infects the
> Left, perhaps even more than the Right in these latter days...
> Mark
>
> --- Toby G Levy <tobylevy at juno.com> wrote:
> >   Historian Richard Hofstadter in "The Paranoid Style in American
> >    Politics" [1965] says that the political paranoid views history as
> > a
> >    conspiracy "set in motion by demonic forces of almost transcendent
> >    power."
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