NN Friedman V. Pynchon

[pynchonoid]

--- s~Z <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:
> all of the ballyhoo about
> the Internet is rather
> silly. 

Pynchon apparently finds it interesting; computers and
technology and networks and the Internet -- he comes
back to this again and again, in novels and essays,
for a long time now. 

>Of course totalitarians are going to use the
> Internet, just like they
> use the state of the art in every endeavor from
> medicine to psychology to
> chemistry to aeronautics etc etc.

Part of the point may be that Pynchon understands the
need to educate the many readers of his Foreword to
_1984_ who are Reagan/Bush babies (and their children)
who, raised on a steady diet of CHiPs and Fox News
neo-fascism, may not recognize the Internet as a
threat. The kind of folks who mistake Friedman for a
wise man, perhaps.



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