Is it OK to be a Luddite?

[Doug Millison]

I agree this is an example of Pynchon's politics that make his work
difficult for many American readers, even assuming they can work through the
complexities at a literary level. GR makes it very clear, to my mind at
least, that multinational corporations that cross boundaries and alliances
are responsible for the War that never ends, thus incriminating U.S.
affiliates of said corporations, and their shareholders and directors.
Speaking in his own voice in the Luddite essay, P would seem (again in my
opinion) to make this judgement with regard to real corporations and the
real WWII and its extension into the Cold War period (in addition to the
names of real corporations he mentions in GR). I believe Pynchon realized
early on that many of the U.S. companies known and trusted by Americans had
blood on their hands vis-a-vis the Nazi war crimes; and I think it's clear
from his later novels that the same multinational companies are complicit in
the crimes Cold War period, especially the Vietnam War that serves as the
backdrop for his composition of GR. Just my opinion of course.

Otto 
This is the crucial point which puts the United States in one line with the
nazis, and this makes this essay "disturbing" for Americans I believe.