Foreword "Goofy Mustaches"

[Cyrus]

Malignd wrote:

><<... 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.
>

The great man is forewording a novel that is _about_ government control. 
It's natural that he would focus on that particular aspect of things. 
What would you have done in his place?

Cyrus