VLVL Pynchon's Satire (parody of K. Sale)

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Managerial Revolution & The End of Ideology? 

Oh Oedipa!
Did the Land Developers Trump Weber-Dewey-Nixon? 

Wake up Zoyd! 

In VL,  Pynchon doesn't present the new generation of Marxist and New
Left activists who emerged and who hooked up  with the best and
brightest of the older generation of intellectual-activists. Where is
Sartre? Marcuse? 
And he doesn't present the most important leaders. We can debate MLK and
Malcolm X, but they are not in the book. 

What character in this novel represents Free Speech? Peace?  

Pynchon has got you in his book. 

One "Way Out" of it is to open a bunch of others. Hey, Norman O. Brown's
last chapter is "A Way Out." At the same time, if you want to
participate here, you'll need to try to discredit the close readers of
Pynchon's texts. 

Good Luck!  

Another way out? 

 Pynchon's 24fps and PR3 are satirical
representatives not of the 1960's Left, a multi-faceted Movement, but of
what was dubbed the "New Left", the transitory and just in it for the 
free ride in the back of the bus to see how does it feel, the rock  and
roll celebrities, the drugged-up high flying and flamboyant fools, the
apolitical visionaries, dreamers,  mystics and poets, the free lover's 
concupiscence  concubinagers communers , or what  publicists and later
historians, TV & Hollywood, have created-a  4:30 Movie Of The Week &
Survey course of the sixties.  


We all know that the 1960's Left was a enormous hodgepodge of
contradictory and conflicting movements. 

Why does  Pynchon give us another WSC (Whole Sick Crew)? 
 

If the Anti-war mobilization, strongly influenced by Trotskyists, is 
represented by Rex, Rex is another Turner, working for the State he
discovers the Truth and is afraid to say anything. And what has he
discovered?  Jesus? 

How many of these God Hungry characters  find Jesus? 


Sledge? Roaches? Pigs are cool? Sledge hasn't got a chance. He'd be
better off with the kids in Pynchon's TSI. I'm guessing that he is one
of the people who disappears at the hands of Brock Vond. 


Sale? P uses his good buddies text, sure, but his use of it is not
flattering in the least. It's parody. Parody, Fantasy, Comedy. 

So one target of the Satire here is the attempt
to equate the 1960's Left with the "New Left" and the latter with the
Students for a Democratic Society.