1984 Foreword "fascistic disposition"

[Malignd]

<<Perhaps Pynchon makes such a harsh critique of
Bush's US in 2003 in the Foreward because the system
of surveillance, manipulation, and oppression in
democratic disguise is becoming in-your-face overt
(in-your-face PATRIOT act, widely publicized
detentions and torture, etc.) in the wake of 9-11.>>

As is often the case, you can't seem to keep track of
what is and is not a product of your own perfervid
thinking.

<< Not surprising to see this quoted by somebody who
calls Pynchon a crank for worrying about the
Internet's current use and future potential for social
control.>>

I do indeed see crankiness in this.

<< The marginalization of those who worry,
appropriately, about the erosion of civil liberties in
the US (by comparing them to the fringe crazies like
John Birch Society members and others) represents a
propaganda victory for more mainstream folks who have
embraced Bush and his Democrat counterparts in the
U.S. and their programs for Fortress America.>>

It is not "those who worry, appropriately" Menand is
writing about; it is frothing, name-calling obsessives
of a sort among whom I readily number you.


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