Pynchon & Michael Moore WAS Re: NP Michael Moore

[pynchonoid]

--- umberto rossi <teacher at inwind.it> wrote: 
> I might naively ask you what's the connection of
> that message with 
> Pynchon, 

It's easy enough to turn this thread back to Pynchon,
if the participants wish to do so.  Gravity's Rainbow
contains many passages and story elements that deal
with propaganda and the way that the messages of
government propaganda filter out into news reporting,
movies, music, etc. to keep people willing to die for
the War that Never Ends. 

Like Fox News and the other networks, Moore selects
his facts, quotes, film and video clips, analytic and
interpretative elements,  and strings them together
them to tell his story -- not that different from GR's
story of WWII, after all, in several important ways,
although GR is far to complex to boil down to a story
as simple as Moore's -- of how the US came to be in
Iraq, sacrificing US soldiers and mercenaries,
killing, maiming, and terrifying innocent Iraqi
civilians, so that corrupt government leaders can
maintain power and help their fat-cat cronies gorge
themselves on war profits, blood money. 

What Moore hasn't done is to create any "facts" out of
whole cloth the way the Bush Administration seems to
have done, as revealed in the stream of investigative
reports now emerging.  Not only did Bush & Co. twist
existing facts and commit errors of omission (and
that's the most that Moore can be faulted for, if, in
fact, he is at fault -- the lack of libel litigation
tends to support the argument that Moore has his facts
right), they appear to have invented things, or to
have relied on informants who made up "intelligence"
to support the prejudices of Bush & Co.,  to bolster
the case for war.  

umberto:
> [...] boringly repeats the
> commonplaces of 
> pro-Iraq business propaganda. As an attack to Moore
> it's quite weak, 
> you'll admit.

Weak, yes, but of a piece with the sort of
pro-corporate profits and pro-war cheerleading that's
been too common in this forum for nearly 3 years now. 
At least they've stopped trying to attribute this sort
of pro-war, pro-corporate propaganda to Pynchon.


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