Foreword "Goofy Mustaches"

[Peter Fellows-McCully]

He definitely does NOT say that it's not a life-enhancing technology.
Any means of communication can be used for "good" or "evil" (not
admitting the existence of either :) and the more efficient the means
the more pronounced the effect.

pfm

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org 
> [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf Of Malignd
> Sent: 25 April 2003 15:50
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: Foreword "Goofy Mustaches"
> 
> 
> <<... most notably the Internet, a development that
> promises social control on a scale those quaint old 
> twentieth-century tyrants with their goofy mustaches could 
> only dream about.">>
> 
> So Pynchon sees the Internet not as the life-enhancing 
> technology most of us find it to be, but rather as a method 
> for government control. 
> 
> The great man is apparently aging into a paranoid
> crank.
> 
> 
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