GR: Help with the Preterite and Elite

[Billy Internicola]

New guy here, gleaning a lot from the GRGR , thank you all...
Here's my question, and forgive me as I'm sure this is a "basic" Pynchon question. 
 
I understand that Pynchon has borrowed his conception of the preterite and elite from protestant theology, which I am pretty well familiar with. 
I assume that Pynchon is not interested in the idea as it was conceived and as it pertains to faith. 
 
What I'm less sure of is, is the preterite and elite just another dichotomy like all the rest in his work: us vs. them, black/white, rossini/beethoven etc. and Pynchon is simply showing us that it is a particularly insipent way in which humans divide and alienate one another ? 
OR
is Pynchon, for lack of a more sophisticated word, "siding" with the preterite and pointing out the cruelty and inhumanity of the elite, perhaps in a manner that a communist would talk of rich capitalists and the proletariat? Sometimes I've thought of Pynchon as the most "preterite" of the (mostly)  agreed upon artistic geniuses of modern times, in the sense that more than any other I can think of , he fully immerses himself in "low" art. ( by the way, don't the Simpsons cameos just kill you?) 
 
I have a feeling folks are going to answer "both" but as this is a crucial theme to GR, I thought it'd be helpful to start discussing it early on. 
Cheers. 
 


		
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