What's good for the pigs is good for the piglets

[Terrance]

Otto sez, 

>Violent armed struggle against a government violating the constitution by
>having started the violence against the people within and outside the US.
>That's been the perception some parts of the young generation had in 1968.

>But that's not what we read in Vineland, we don't get a story of the
>Weathermen, we get the story of some hippies infiltrated by snitches, the
>infiltration of a lefty film collective by even meaner snitches and
>generally the story how easily revolutionary movements can be destroyed by
>using their inner contradictions and personal weaknesses against them.

I guess if we ignore all the characters we do, but what about Frenesi
and DL? Hippies? Not really, right? What about the Pisk Sisters, Rex, 
Elroy X? Oh come on Otto, VL is not the story of some hippies
infiltrated by snitches. If we ignore the DL's family, Frenesi's family,
Prairie, maybe, but Pynchon spends a lot of time connecting these women.
Both come out of World War II. Seems kinda important to me. The Students
at College of the Surf do research and discover that the College is not
a gift to the people but a Real Estate scam. Rex does research and
discovers what the USA is doing in SE Asia (or he thinks he does) and he
supports a group in Paris. Never know what you'll find if you do 
research, but you don't go breaking into people offices and holding them
hostage to get to the files. Hell, that's Nixonian. 

BTW, I don't think P  supports violent revolutions. Not even the one by
the Americans against the imperialist/colonialist British.