VLVL Count Drugula, or Mucho the Munificent

[Terrance]

> 
> The critique of the 60s counterculture, its hedonism, drug use and political
> naivete is of course there. The political naivete goes into two directions,
> the belief that the most powerful government on earth could be defeated by
> wearing flowers in your hear, and the belittlement of the crimes of the
> countries of the "real existing socialism."

What about the fact that what started out as a non-violent and
constructive civil rights and equal rights and worker's rights movement,
and as a free speech movement, and a  stop the war movement, a stop the
military industrial complex on campus movement, was usurped by violent
and selfish idiots, by sex drugs and rock and roll? Was it hedonism,
drugs and political naiveté? Is that what Pynchon depicts in VL? 

Not at all. 

Frenesi is not naive. Is she? Is DL a hedonist? Is that why she like to
kick ass? The Pisk sisters are political animals. They are not naive.
They are too smart for there own good. Hell, these kids all meet up at
Berkeley.  They make movies, they read about Marxist revolutions. They
misread the nation. They are not naive. They are arrogant. They know way
too much. They are young. They have no patience and they are closed
minded, but they are not innocent. They believe in violent confrontation
and they believe that they are better, smarter, braver, than the worker,
and their parent's generation. They are a ship of fools. In a comic
satire like VL, we are invited to laugh at both Zoyd and Hector. If you
can't. if you continue to read Hector as an evil police man fascist and
Zoyd as a victim, you won't get much out of the book.