VLVL2 (9): The War on Drugs

[Dave Monroe]

Pynchon's Vineland: The War On Drugs and the Coming
American Police-State

by Dan Geddes

Vineland (1990)

Thomas Pynchon

[See also Distorted Communication in Pynchon’s The
Crying of Lot 49]

Contents

Infiltrating the Resistance Movement1

The Repression: America as Garrison State. 2

The Reagan-Bush Repression: The War on Drugs. 4

The Tube. 5

Workers and Corporations. 6

Conclusions. 7

Resources. 9

Vineland is a politically engaging, darkly hilarious
novel. Vineland describes America as "scabland
garrison state," where organized political dissent is
monitored and ultimately destroyed by the federal
government. The Repression, as Pynchon calls it, takes
many forms, including naked police power, political
infiltration of the resistance, and the War on Drugs.
The American culture pre-empts dissent; Hollywood and
the Tube even weakens people's intellect and powers of
resistance. The American economy, as seen in Vineland,
is barren, workers providing each other with
"services" like law enforcement, drug enforcement, as
well as Hollywood movies and shows to feed the
Tube....

http://www.thesatirist.com/books/Vineland.html

--- Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> 130.32  "now he sees his future in the war against
> drugs" ...

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