A sketch of Pynchonian politics

[Paul Mackin]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Millison" <DMillison at ftmg.net>
> Certainly Pynchon is a prescient observer and synthesizer of technical,
> economic, and political trends. His vision as expressed in GR in
particular,
> of a world economy controlled by corporations and cartels powerful enough
to
> influence governments and media, and able to establish a branch office in
> every person's head was accurate:  otherwise how to explain the election
of
> a puppet like the current occupant of the White House?
>

--The rich are different from you and me, Ernest.
--Yes, Scott, they have more money. Also, Scott,  in case you hadn't
noticed, Corporations and Governments also have more money than we do--money
enough to invest in the development and utilization of technology thereby
substantially controlling the future. This is true prescience. It's  the
kind of prescience writers like you and me  can never have. Even though we
are (you'll agree) geniuses. The only way to forecast the future is to make
it happen..

Offered only in good natured fun, not to denigrate the Pyncher's foresight.

            P..