The Blasphemy of impotent sheep

[Terrance]

The Great Quail wrote:
> 
> >Blasphemous Jbor said it again:
> >Go blind your self with somebody else's
> >literature!
> 
> Barbara, you are just kidding around, right? Do you really think jbor
> is "blasphemous," and you wish him to stop reading Pynchon? Don't you
> think this is just a little, well, fanatical? You are kidding, right?
> 
> --Quail


Except for that succession of criminally insane who have enjoyed
power  since 1945, including the power to do something about it, most of
the rest
of us poor sheep have always been stuck with simple, standard fear. I
think we all have tried to deal with this slow escalation of our
helplessness
and  terror in the few ways open to us, from not thinking about it to
going
crazy from it. Somewhere on this spectrum of impotence is writing
fiction about
it -- occasionally, as here offset to a more colorful
time and place." Slow Learner

Is it blasphemy to suggest that Pynchon's tales are deliberately
situated on that spectrum of impotence--  Somewhere between a broken
remembrancer (forget)  and  "losing one's religion" (this phrase, which
means, "to lose it", "to go crazy", is the tile of a pop song by REM)?