Technology and humanity

[Jumbly Girl]

Mondegreen wrote:
> 
> >The topic is, and has been, Pynchon's statement about
> >the Internet and social control:
> >
> >[...] What has steadily, insidiously improved since
> >then, of course, making humanist arguments almost
> >irrelevant, is the technology. ...
> 
> Hello everybody. What's the context here? Humanist arguments are relevant
> to some things; not to others. What is it that Pynchon is saying they are
> irrelevant to?

Take a look at the topic sentence. Technology. But, of course what P is
saying, which is is not much really, is irrelevant here. What matters is
what Doug says and what people say about Doug.