Still Nabokov-free WAS Re: NN Gibson re Orwell

[pynchonoid]

--- Malignd <malignd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> <<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.

You don't know what you're talking about it. Fact is,
the Internet is controlled by corporations, which are
licensed by governments to manage and implement the
various software and hardware systems that are the
Internet. 
>  
> <<Pynchon knows better -- he's wiser, and more
> insightful.>>
> 
> He in fact offers no insight.  He merely makes his
> dire prediction.

I disagree.  In the Foreword he follows up on what
he's written about the Internet in his Stone Junction
intro (a concrete example of Internet use to the
detriment of civil liberties), and in Vineland, where
government control of computer networks serves as a
plot element.

Aside from a brain-dead denial, Malign offers no
support for the anti-Pynchon argument in this instance



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