Is it OK to be a Luddite?

[David Morris]

>From: "Courtney Givens"
>
>I'm not sure he is making fun of his point at all. He's having fun ("you 
>heard it here first" is a cliché). Why does he do it? Why introduce the 
>cliché? I imagine he  does it to add humor to an otherwise humorless 
>prediction.
>
>Brainy Smurf? the Brady Buncher?  TV?  movies? Is this guy serious?

BINGO!  Humor and irreverence, should his essays be any less laden with 
these than his fiction?  And his literary hero (luddite fiction) in this 
piece is both "low" writing flights of hope and gothic expressions of dread. 
  He may gratuitously put down "serious" post WW2 fiction, and it may be a 
cheap shot, but he's trying to call attention to the expressions in the 
general (sub)conciousness which rises in flight/opposition to "the Machine." 
  This has obvious relevance to his novels.  In some ways this is a 
self-promotion essay.

Some of the criticism here I think misses the forrst for the trees.

David Morris
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