Open Letter to Doug and Friends

[Doug Millison]

Great post, Quail.    How the birds come home to
roost!  Nice that you chose to leave out the
obscenities, unlike in your private email to me in the
past. 

Silly me, to bring Pynchon up on Pynchon-L, asking
that we consider trying to relate the current war
mongering/flag waving climate in the U.S. to what
Pynchon has written about the War that never ends, his
critique of Reagan-Bush politics in Vineland, his
attack on imperialism/colonialism in M&D -- all three
novels (not to mention V. and COL49) which speak
directly to the current Situation.  

You may have missed the posts where I mentioned that I
have family and friends in Manhattan, close to "Ground
Zero" (and you gotta love that military terminology
that the government and press have applied to the site
of great human tragedy). Just today, I pointed to a
web site where people can donate $ that wlll go
directly to pay for counseling services for victims of
the attacks -- I don't recall anybody else pointing
out such a resource, but perhaps I missed it.  

In the face of a barrage of posts that seek to
perpetuate the flag waving and echo the drumbeats to
war, I have excerpted and pointed to a variety of
alternative voices that seek to understand the
complexities of the current situation, and which,
consistently, call for non-violent solutions that
promise hope for lasting peace & justice.  Obviously,
you and a few others bring your own interpretations to
these posts and to the voices I have thus brought to
the attention of the P-list.  I won't spend any time
at all defending the practice of opening a discussion
to a broad spectrum of viewpoints.  

Speaking of taking this occasion to grind a personal
axe or two, I note that you and the handful of others
who take this opportunity to excoriate me seem to have
a personal axe or two to grind as well -- you make
this quite clear in your post. It's hardly surprising
to see this same handful of people getting on my case
once again.

Offlist, of course, a large number of people have
continued to urge me to continue to post what I've
been posting.  They are perhaps less accustomed to
having the wanna-be list moderators telling the rest
of us what to post and how to post it.   

So, thanks for the feedback.  You didn't like what I
posted to the P-list a few years ago, and you don't
like it now.  Anything else new? 

-Doug






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