Pynchon's anti-Americanism

[Otto]

Why Thomas Pynchon is responsible for 9/11 (warning: there's absolutely
stupid declamatory talk):*


Zell and the Converts,  by Mary Grabar, published  09/08/2004:

"Long before the twin towers were brought down by diabolical promoters of an
ideology in 2001, another tower, representative of the great accomplishments
in Western culture, had crumbled after an attack from within.
(...)
While the good average citizens expressed shock, outrage, and patriotism,
disillusioned sophisticates lectured to classes on the evils of the West.
While most of America put up American flags, the remaining enthusiasts of
Marxism plastered the hallways with "Understanding Islam" posters. While
most of America grieved, dissolute graduate students grabbed the opportunity
to post political diatribes against the U.S. government on university
list-servs.
(...)
But this anti-Americanism did not begin with the war in Iraq. In the
mid-nineties I had the opportunity to experience first-hand the promotion of
such a view in a class on the modern novel, in which the major text was
Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Indeed, Senator Miller, had he had known
about it, would have been outraged back then to hear a popular professor
promote the idea that agreed with Pynchon's claim that, rather than being
liberators of the Nazi concentration camps, the U.S. was a major player in
the regime's inception. The novel, after a string of descriptions of
sado-masochistic acts involving children (connected, of course, with the
West/U.S./Nazi regime), ends with the indictment of the latest in what
Pynchon presents as a long line of fascist presidents, Richard Nixon.
Pynchon's book is nothing but a long, hallucinatory propaganda piece that in
a disjointed post-modernist style distorts history in order to equate Nazism
with Western civilization.
(...)
Senator Miller would have been outraged had he been in an English department
where the very idea of "family" is questioned and attacked. He would have
been shocked while listening to discussions of sadistic child pornography
discussed with aplomb not only in Pynchon's novel but then again in the
class."

continous at:
http://www.techcentralstation.com/090804F.html
(where Free Markets meet Technology, oboy)

Sorry, I'm outraged by Goebbels-like figures like Mary Grabar and Zell
Miller!

Otto
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