Review of Stephen E. Ambrose's _The Good Fight_

[Paul Mackin]

"America of the mind" is very Pynchonian I think.

It seems to me America is like the p-list--godawful but infinitely
compelling nevertheless.

One might  say intellectual antiAmericanism is oedipal but I'm not going to.

An 800 pound gorilla will be both feared and admired..

                P.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian KUmpe" <D.Bizarro at gmx.net>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 5:08 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re: Review of Stephen E. Ambrose's _The Good Fight_


> Well, I did a little fieldwork on corporate american propaganda abbroad
> (i.e. Berlin). One thing I found was the strong traditional appeal that
America
> has as the promised land. All the foundig father myths and so on are both
> (corporate) propaganda AND part of a global mythology shared by almost
everyone.
> Therefor nicely exploited by the suits. So I think there´s an America of
the
> mind, belonging to everyone who shares it, even Americans AND there is the
> Blind Idiot God inside the Pentagon (read: Military Entertainment
Complex).Yet
> this doesn´t explain traditional intellectual anti-americanism. There are
> many reasons for every ideology.
>
> Read you,
> Christian
>
>
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