VLVL (6) Pynchon's parables

[Mike Weaver]

Ideal Rob:
>I think that Pynchon's
>texts, including _Vineland_, resist such partisanship and simplistic
>either/ors. They satirise and repudiate the myth-making which goes on in all
>spheres of human enterprise, including politics, and particularly the sort
>of "us" versus "them" rhetoric which ideologues like Mike are so fond of.

Perhaps you'd care to offer your comments on the part of my notes ( now 
slightly rewritten) where I do refer to  We/They :

83.19 Sasha's thought's on her own uniform fetish are another great 
Pynchonian dialectic. Those of us who consciously resist authority in some 
ways are resisting the seduction of uniformity, we are still children 
attempting to escape parental control, i.e. to take responsibility for our 
own lives.
The question I have is whether this paragraph shows P's pessimism ("were 
really acts of denying") or a deliberate provocation to the reader. I 
favour the latter, especially given Frenesi's reaction. Finding the view 
politically incorrect, getting angry - when added to her own almost total 
succumbing to the fetish, throws a light on the paucity of the concept of 
political correctness, which treats political strivings as if they can be 
tidily framed, and drained of any dialectical tension. Sasha's fear is the 
healthy self doubt which reminds us that the We/They tension is as much an 
internal struggle as it is social one. It is not as the likes of Dave 
Morris would have it, that We are They, we all contain both in different 
proportions and those aspects influence how we act. Whether we choose in 
any given decision to swing with the (internal) we or they decides to which 
side our energies are added.