VLVL Count Drugula, or Mucho the Munificent

[Terrance]

 -- but there has been a constant attempt to gloss over or evade the
obvious
> criticisms of the 60s counterculture which the novel *also* presents.


Does the novel critique the 60s counterculture? Why would Pynchon
bother? Are s his satire  corrective and normative. In other words, if
P's satires  appeal to some consensus on values, what are those values?
Scoff at my assertion that Pynchon is a conservative and a Catholic. 
But that's what people tell me and that's what I read in his books.