[VLVL] The Sixties

[Paul Mackin]

On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 01:30, Eulenspiegel7646 at aol.com wrote:
> The Sixties
> 
> It's a well-known fact that the winners get to write the history
> books.  Over the last 25 years, the history of the sixties has been
> rewritten and distorted by a series of ever-more conservative
> politicians and TV anchormen.  (For that matter, the decade was
> grotesquely distorted by the media while it was happening!)  Worst of
> all, as time passes and fewer people actually remember the sixties,
> this distorted picture becomes more and more difficult to challenge. 
> Vineland is Pynchon's attempt to take back his/our history; we (in the
> person of Thomas Pynchon) must define the sixties, not the fascists
> represented in the person of Brock Vond, the book's sadistic villain.
> Vineland is about the power that inheres in memory.

Is Mark Rudd a neocon?

What can one say about the sixties that isn't neocon?