"But the world isn't like that."

[pynchonoid]

> > Bush and his allies have used the term
> "appeasement" 


Right here on Pynchon-L, too.


> As
>Jules Lobel notes, "American dominance altered our
>notion
>of national security. Every challenge to United
>States 
>hegemony anywhere in the world began to be perceived
>as
>a threat to national security."84 


Yes, _1984_, the year in which _Vineland_ begins.











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