Foreword "Goofy Mustaches"

[David Morris]

--- Malignd <malignd at yahoo.com> 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.

This struck me as odd too.  The internet has been opening up worlds to people
who've been caged within totalitarian states whose rulers don't want their
people to know what's going on in the larger world.  It's much more about
freedom than control.  I think Pynchon just likes to spout.  It's a good thing
he doesn't do this often.

David Morris

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