1984 Foreword "fascistic disposition"

[pynchonoid]

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> But it's not either/or. Sure, some of the
> "emergency" domestic policies
> which were implemented encroached on some of the
> civil liberties which
> Americans previously enjoyed, and these can be
> itemised and criticised, or,
> in some cases, justified. But none of it compares
> with the sorts of thing
> Saddam or Hitler imposed and enforced in Iraq and
> Germany, and it doesn't
> make America "fascist", or totalitarian, or
> comparable to the Third Reich.

Sure they're comparable. People compare them all the
time. In his writing, Pynchon compares Nazi Germany
with the US, at many levels and in many different
ways, not only in his fiction but also in his
non-fiction writings.  Seeing and subtly showing how
the so-called "Western democracies" are in fact
similar to the fascist societies they fight, in WWII
and other battles of the War that Never Ends lies at
the heart of the Pynchon's project.


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