the "Movement"

[Richard Fiero]

Toby G Levy wrote:
>Yes, Pynchon blurbed this book. Interesting that this came out 
>the same year as Gravity's Rainbow.
>
>SDS by Kirkpatrick Sale out of print (used copies start at around $100)
>
>reviewed on Amazon.Com by Jeff Leach
>   . . .

I read the book not long ago -- couple of months. My take on 
the author is that he is a likely national security apparatus 
asset. Hell, I've acquaintances that are ex-DIA and ex-NSA and 
I will take Mr. Pynchon's version as being less Byzantine and 
more real than, um, real. I also ran into a functioning SDSer 
not long ago -- still doing dangerous anti-establishment stuff 
like voter registration and grassroots community consciousness 
raising. While name-dropping, I had the great pleasure of 
listening to Doug Kellner recently who is the Marcuse archivist 
and essayist. A tremendously nice guy who's done a great job 
but you gotta wonder at the relevance of Frankfurt School.
Go there:
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/kellner.html

Not in this reading segment but I wonder if the Thanatoids are 
the Silent Majority and later the Moral Majority who were 
thought to receive their instructions via the Tube. But we are 
coming up on those fateful words "subvert" and "destabilize."
Cheers.