Pynchon, the Beats & "conservative American Values"

[pynchonoid]

For more on Pynchon's views re "conservative American
Values", see _Mason & Dixon_, with its presentation of
what the revolution accomplished or not. If you accept
-- as that novel suggests -- that the American
revolution merely transferred power from one group of
white European male property (including slaves) owners
to another, the values to be conserved from such a
"revolution" appear anti-democratic and elitist, also
to include such "values" as the desireability of
raping the environment for profit, genocide of native
Americans in order to pave the way for imperial
conquest, establishment and maintenance of a
class-bound society with an economy based on the
enslavement of fellow human beings, advancement of
Enlightment concepts and practices that undermine the
folk religious beliefs and practices that comfort and
sustain the large mass of people whose physical labor
actually supports the whole edifice, & etc. I don't
think Pynchon is working very hard, as a writer, to
defend such "conservative American values".


--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> This description of the core "values" of working
> Americans [...]

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