Technology and humanity

[Jumbly Girl]

Mondegreen wrote:
> 
> >The topic is, and has been, Pynchon's statement about
> >the Internet and social control:


If you've not read P's essay 

Is It O.K. to Be a Luddite?

[The New York Times Book Review, 28 October 1984, pp. 1, 40-41.]

Now, given that kind of time span, it's just not easy to think of Ned
Lud as a technophobic crazy.

It was open-eyed class war.

But we now live, we are told, in the Computer Age. What is the outlook
for Luddite sensibility?