small correction Re: VLVL2 (1): Rushdie review of Vineland

[pynchonoid]

--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the Rushdie reminder, Tim. He puts his
> finger directly on the reason why so many of the
> Reagan babies have a hard time dealing with
> Pynchon's
> subversive politics, as expressed so forthrightly in
> Vineland, the Slow Learner intro, and the Foreword
> to
> _1984_. So many of their parents were co-opted in
> the
> Nixon and Reagan years, then their kids swallowed
the
> Reagan-Bush
> line whole, for all the reasons presented in
> Vineland
> -- addiction to a Tube that reinforces the need to
> sustain a police state and snitch culture, little or
> no awareness of the facts of US history, drug
> addiction thanks to the flood of cocaine and other
> drugs facilitated by Bush and his CIA, etc. To the
> point that we now see some Pynchon readers
> justifying
> an obscene colonial war demanded by corporate death
> merchants, and even suggesting that Pynchon would
> support Bush's so-called "war on terrorism" -- the
> kind of war that appears to have made Pynchon's skin
> crawl as he sublimated his rage against the Cold War
> doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction and against
> the Vietnam War by writing _Gravity's Rainbow_. 


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