A sketch of Pynchonian politics

[Jane O' Sweet]

quick, gotta run, run, but very quickly....thanks Richard...



Richard Fiero wrote:
> 
> Jane O' Sweet wrote:
> 
> >  . . .  I don't
> >find that Pynchon (his texts that is, not the man, we have
> >no idea about the man and who cares anyway) is either very
> >astute on the complexities of economics or very interested
> >in representing either what is now being called the "global
> >economy" or what was then (GR, VL, M&D, circa 1960-2000) the
> >current state of world economics.
> 
> If we abstract the issues away then they don't appear to exist.

What issue is being abstracted? 


> Pynchon's texts seem filled with instances of characters gaming
> the system. 

Yes it does. 

Brock Vond building his career by turning
> informants to roll over on their associates without actually
> busting anyone through Nixon the master criminal. 

Lost me. 


It's not the
> author's fault that our naming of the systems involved is
> somewhat inadequate. 

I'm not finding fault in the author. My point is that the
author has written a fiction and not a history of Post WWII
economics. Again, his focus, his interest while they are
clearly very Political and while the Political and Economic
are  the central interlocking gears of the System, is
religion as politics/economics. On this P is very
sophisticated and very well read and versed.  

Reality continues to validate the author's
> prescience and understanding of public events hidden from public transparency.

I doubt this can be proven. I don't think Pynchon is
prescient and think he satirizes those that claim to be so
and those that believe they have x-ray vision.