Notes From Underglass- Why Pynchon Matters
prozak at anus.com
prozak at anus.com
Sun Feb 23 16:44:19 CST 2003
> >> What makes Pynchon important as a novelist is precisely because of his
> >> sense of political and ethical responsibility which balances and informs
> >> his aesthetics, something Riefenstahl, for example, failed to accomplish.
> >
> > I prefer to be open-minded about the political beliefs of others. In
> > her view, she did the same.
>
> I prefer not to be open-minded about the wholesale slaughter of people.
You're already taking a complex series of events and attempting to
distill it to a linear, moral point of view.
To an external observer, this is no different than what Hitler did or
Bush is doing.
> What you call open-minded, others might call "fellow traveller",
> collaborationist, apologist, or card carrying member.
Not if they want to be taken credibly, since by my original words
you've quoted above, my "open-mindedness" applies equally to the
political beliefs of all people.
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