VLVL the "Movement"

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>>> But when traveling Movement co-ordinators began to show up,
>>> they could only shake their heads and blink, as if trying to surface
>>> from a dream. None of these kids had been doing any analysis. Not
>>> only was nobody thinking about the real situation, nobody was even
>>> brainlessly reacting to it. Instead they were busy surrounding with
>>> a classically retrograde cult of personality a certain mathematics
>>> professor, neither charismatic nor even personable, named Weed
>>> Atman, who had ambled into celebrity. (205.6)

It's pretty clear that Pynchon is representing these "Movement" interlopers
as sneering and superior. And, implicitly, and obviously so, they "began to
show up" to try and stir up the unrest and turn the emerging rebellion at
College of the Surf to their own agenda. (This is not to say that Weed and
PR3, like Ditzah and Zipi in the previous chapter, and the rest of 24fps,
are immune from Pynchon's satire.)

"None of these kids had been doing any analysis."

Cf.
    "I don't want to get into a religious argument with you, absence
    of sleep has Mexico more cranky today than usual, "but I wonder
    if you people aren't a bit too -- well, strong, on the virtues of
    analysis. I mean, once  you've taken it all apart, fine, I'll be
    the first to applaud your industry. But other than a lot of bits
    and pieces lying about, what have *you* said?" (GR 88)

There's another passage about "Analysis and Control" that I just can't put
my finger on, and cf. also Blicero's epiphany about how "Europe came and
established its order of Analysis and Death" (GR 722).

"Not only was nobody thinking about the real situation ... "

Cf. Sidney Stencil's rejected pamphlet entitled "The Situation as
N-Dimensional Mishmash" (V. 470).

For the "classically retrograde cult of personality" cf. "the routinisation
of charisma".

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