VLVL2 revolution, Prairie & WAS Re: Shutting down New York

[pynchonoid]

Joe, I mean to say that the idea that the student
radicals would overthrow the US government wasn't
taken seriously by anybody but a few people in the
Movement and in the government.

Agreed that Bush Jr is following in Nixon's
extra-Constitutional footsteps.

Another group of serious revolutionaries to watch --
they've been gathering steam since they first started
congregating in the dry places out West during the
Cold War -- are the right-wing militia:  the Minutemen
who were conducting war games when I was a high school
school in Arizona in the '60s, the movement that
produced Timothy McVeigh, and others of that ilk. 
(I'm reading a fun new sci-fi novel right now, _The X
President_, that takes as its premise that the
home-grown right-wing militia ally with Islamic
fundamentalists and Chinese imperialists, with time
travel and Bill Clinton thrown into the mix.)

On another topic, Prairie may express mixed feelings
regarding Brock, but that comes at a moment when there
is no possible danger of her following through on
those feelings, in the midst of the novel's most
cartoonish deus ex machina moment, Brock is on his way
out of there, off to his bone-grinding fate -- at
worst it's just a whisper of the fever that gripped
Frenesi, and Pynchon returns Prairie safe to the bosom
of a loving family/community.  The contrast with Benny
at the end of V.couldn't be more stark.

--- joeallonby <vze422fs at verizon.net> wrote:
> I disagree. What Nixon did in 1972 was an attempt at
> overthrowing the
> constitutional government of the United States. He
> almost succeeded.
> 
> I consider the current administration to be an
> overthrow of the
> constitutional United States government by a small
> number of highly
> motivated idealogues.
> 
> The U.S. government has been overthrown. And that
> ain't good.
> 


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