Foreword "Goofy Mustaches"

[Dave Monroe]

No, like most technologies this side of thermonuclear
weaponry, the internet, www, whatever is hardly an
ethical et al. one-way street in any given direction,
that's for sure.  Again, it' a floor wax AND a desert
topping.   AND ... AND ... but while squeezing the
'net is no doubt like squeezing mud, still doesn't
mean some(governmental or otherwise)body won't give it
a squeeze and still likely end up with a fair handful
of mud nonetheless.  Sure, most of the problems
engendered are as old as humanity
itself--surveillance, repression, theft, whatever--but
now it can be done far more quickly, far more
pervasively, on a far greater scale, at far greater
distances, with far less effort, AND people are
inviting it into their homes, workplaces, what have
you.  At any rate, Pynchon's reaction in that
"Foreword" might not be all too nuanced, but it's
hardly unexpected, given the combination of author and
subject, author and author, peanut butter and
chocolate, whatever, and, well, it's a twenty-page
introduction to some other guy's book, so ... so,
again, I agree, just wait 'til the novel(ization). 
Okay, on with the evening's insomnia ...

--- David Morris <fqmorris at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Well I don't know about that.  I didn't think we
> were discussing public policy, just the "dangers"
> of the internet for an evil control greater than the
> mustached totalitarians of past could imagine.  If
> this thrat were so real then China wouldn't be
> trying to reign-in what its citizens can access.
> The internet is much more in tune, useful in a
> variety of ways, to an underground movement(s).
> Just ask the Terrorists.

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