VLVL2 (10) Realists and dreamers, 198

[Bandwraith at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/23/03 6:36:02 AM, Bandwraith writes:

<< Isn't the very dependency of the collective on the larger system- 
which it selectively scopes, of course, for maximum cinematic
capture of their own projected fantasies of domination and control-
a hint that they have entered into the anter-rooms of annihilation?

The inverted message, here, it seems to me, is that the collective
is all about projection rather than their professed ideology of
detailing the truth that's out there.

respectfully>>

Perhaps I've judged of these child revolutionaries a little too harshly.
Although, while I'm sure envisioning the reactionary targets of their 
filmings as malevolent and dangerous invested their activities with a 
sense of urgency and meaning- if not made them more exciting and 
fun- it wouldn't do to blame the egregious violations of civil liberties 
and human rights perpetrated by Nixon, and even more so by Reagan, 
on a few narcissistic, self-indulgent, apathetic and selfish hippies, 
would it?

Surely, the massive defense and intelligence bureaucracies, and
their interlocking relationships with huge multi-national corporations
like Vinnel and Haliburton, to name just two, and amounting to tens
of trillions of dollars, were not dependent on a few scruffy hippies 
for their appropriations and contracts, were they?

The question then becomes, what is Pynchon's text attempting to
say regarding the hugely asymmetric relationship between the status
quo and the "ippy bums"? and, what should have been the responsible
actions of those otherwise typical American kids in dealing with that
asymmetry of power and the cognitive dissonance engendered by the
immoral actions of their own government and its corporate underwriters?

respectfully