VLVL Ditzah

[Dave Monroe]

Without commneting on specific exampls here ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> Obviously the novel isn't an endorsement of Nixon or
> Reagan, but it's equally obvious that it's not a
> glorification of the 60s counterculture either: it's
> a stinging critique. In fact, the general thrust of
> the novel seems to be to demonstrate how the
> counterculture, sometimes willingly as in Frenesi's
> case (and Van Meter's), and sometimes 
> unintentionally or blunderingly, through narcissism
> and self-indulgence (24fps), disorganisation (PR3),
> and apathy and selfishness (Zoyd), actively advanced
> the conservative cause.

... very good.  Cf. the Tristero, the Counterforce, et
al.  Not to mention Pynchon's accentuation of Orwell's
"dissident" leftism in that 1984 "Intro" ...

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