Is it OK to be a Luddite?

[Doug Millison]

Pynchon: "Anybody with the time, literacy, and access fee can get 
together with just about any piece of specialized knowledge s/he may need.  
So, to that extent, the two-cultures quarrel can no longer be sustained."  

M:
"Access, time, and literacy, may facilitate getting together with
specialized 
knowledge, but it is of scant help to the generalist in understanding it."

Maybe what Pynchon means -- just guessing here, of course -- is that a
person can become familiar with and come to understand specialist knowledge
by reading. Hardly an eccentric notion.  Nor is P out of the ball park to
suggest that finding the time to do this is a challenge.  The boom (in terms
of the surge in their creation and their reception in recent years) in books
that bridge the two-cultures gap would also seem to bear out Pynchon's
insight in this essay.