M.A.D. Internet roots

[Dave Monroe]

I'd say this is a typical P-List overreaction, and I'd
be right, but ...

--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> So who the hell wants freewheeling-egalitarian-to-
> anarchistic utopias?  Is that what we get if we use
> Doug's marketing strategies?  What is wrong with
> control? Social control? Should we all drop out,
> take LSD, send our kids off to India to find
> themselves? Move into a commune with Van Meter and
> his ex-old ladies and the clan? What?

... but it is, so ... so, again, a floor wax AND a
dessert topping.  Centrifugal AND centripetal
tendencies.  I think Pynchon's interest, at least, and
especially in Garvity's Rainbow and Vineland, has been
in how we tend to succumb to the centrifugal, to
power, not only despite centripetal tendencies, but
perhaps also, if not necessarily always, because of
them.  Complex, complicated, nuanced, whatever.  I
still think that comment of Chrissie Jolly's/Siegel's
in Lineland about GR and the hippies is, beyond it
superficialities, at its core, a capital-C Clue ...

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