Foreword "Goofy Mustaches"

[MalignD at aol.com]

> Contrary to what has been suggested on this thread, Pynchon does not write
> that the Internet is entirely evil, or exclusively a tool of repression.  
> He
> simply states that it has the potential to be used for social control on a
> scale only imagined by the likes of Hitler and Stalin. 
> 
Fine.   Anyone with a brain knows that.   It's banal and it's true of at 
least one hundred other things he might have mentioned.    The more 
interesting thing is that TP takes the time to mention this in his intro, as 
if it's a telling insight or a clarion call.

Remind yourself, this is a man who defends Luddites.
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