NN Gibson re Orwell

[Malignd]

<<I can see why some P-listers might like Gibson's
view
of the Internet better than Pynchon's -- I expect they
also suffer G's delusion that the image of an
empowering Internet somehow gives individuals some
sort of parity with the multinational corporations and
government entities that control the Internet.>>

This is hysterical and false; there is no such
control.
 
<<Pynchon knows better -- he's wiser, and more
insightful.>>

He in fact offers no insight.  He merely makes his
dire prediction.

<<His Foreword to _1984_ is also funnier ...>>

Arguably.  Arguably unintentionally.

<<... and more thought-provoking.>>

On this point, arguably not.  

<<(Please note that all the Internet access in the
world wasn't able to prevent Ashcroft's agents from
rounding up thousands of individuals and disappearing
them in the middle of the night in the wake of
September 11 ... and all the Internet organzing of
millions of people around the world couldn't stop Bush
from invading first one and then another weak and
helpless country...>>

Is it your idea that someone--anyone--has claimed or
expects that logging onto AOL will accomplish this?

<<Plus, it's by Pynchon.>>

Ah; right.

  

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