VLVL 24fps and the Movement

[jbor]

> [...]It's worthwhile to note again that neither 24fps
> nor PR3 nor any other
> individuals or organisations of the '60s generation
> depicted in the 
> novel
> thus far have demonstrated any commitment to the
> anti-War or Civil
> Rights
> causes.[...]
> 
> I guess you're forgetting that, having set his novel
> in the '60s moment of student protest, said
> commitments can be taken for granted, it was part of
> the landscape.  

Not necessarily. By all accounts of people who were actually involved the
protest movements were heavily factionalised

        ... it was the Student Mobilization Committee to
        End the War in Vietnam (SMC), not SDS, that assumed
        the main leadership role in the antiwar movement on
        university campuses across the nation. SDS refused
        to participate in the founding meeting of the SMC
        in 1966 and never subsequently affiliated with the
        organization.

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m2005/1_33/56027322/p5/article.jhtml?term
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NB also _Vineland_, p. 38:

        War in Vietnam, murder as an instrument of American
        politics, black neighborhoods torched to ashes and
        death, all must have been off on some other planet.

> You also seem strangely eager to skip over the fact
> that the portrayal of the PR3 rebellion may have as
> much to do with the Free Speech Movement

It may have, but is there any evidence in the text that it does have?

> Surely -- re the gratuitous swipe at Chomsky --jbor
> doesn't want to skip over the fact that, for every
> progressive who may have entertained sympathies for a
> dictator 

Are you endorsing Chomsky's denial of the Khmer Rouge genocide?

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