VLVL Is it OK to be a misoneist?

[jbor]

>> "And yet, there's Pynchon's own apparent defence of Luddism --
>> perhaps the most misoneistic and reactionary of all
>> sensibilities -- in that 1984 article:

>> http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_luddite.html

>> I suspect there's somewhat more ambivalence evident in
>> Pynchon's writings than some commentators are willing to acknowledge."
> 
> Please reread the essay.

Thanks, I have. I think there's quite a bit of ambivalence in it: I'm not
sure that he isn't being tongue in cheek with his apparent endorsement of
Luddism in the first half of the essay, and there is enough hedging in that
closing passage where he cites Byron (!) to make it difficult to work out
what he's actually saying, what his attitudes are, and how serious he is
being.

Similarly, in _Vineland_, Brock's recognition that misoneism is a factor in
social and political realities is an astute one, and one which the '60s
rebels didn't envisage at all.

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