Internet & social control

[pynchonoid]

--- Malignd 
>skips entirely the points he raised.

Speaking of skipping the points you've raised, still
waiting for you to provide some support for your
argument that Pynchon's wrong about the Internet.  

[...] What has steadily, insidiously improved since
then, of course, making humanist arguments almost
irrelevant, is the technology. We must not be too
distracted by the clunkiness of the means of
surveillance current in Winston Smith's era. In "our"
1984, after all, the integrated circuit chip was less
than a decade old, and almost embarrassingly primitive
next to the wonders of computer technology circa 2003,
most notably the internet, a development that promises
social control on a scale those quaint old
20th-century tyrants with their goofy moustaches could
only dream about. [...] 
-Thomas Pynchon, Foreword to _1984_


Perhaps you strive so hard to discredit me personally
because you don't have a counter to Pynchon's insight.
 If you have such an argument, maybe you'll share it
with us.

>His grasp of world
>affairs hardly matches Friedman's.

Yes, Friedman's sorely lacks Pynchon's wisdom.  F also
has found it difficult, for a long time now, to do
much but mouth support for corporations and the
governments they buy.  Pynchon's "grasp of world
affairs hardly matches Friedman's"  -- right you are,
given the scope of world affairs that Pynchon has
addressed in his oeuvre P's view considerably
surpasses Friedman's.  

Doug, wondering if Malign can focus on the topic
instead of continuing the personal attacks, but not
holding my breath....








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