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[Paul Mackin]

On Nov 16, 2006, at 11:40 AM, Dave Monroe wrote:

> --- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote:
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>> I think the reason paranoia and secret conspiracy
>> theory now seem dated is that current conspiracies,
>> such as the Bush administration, are so transparent.
>> What's to discover? For us readers, I mean.
>
> Peter Knight, Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to
> the X-Files (New York: Routledge, 2000), Chapter 1,
> "Conspiracy/Culture," Section II, "Vineland and
> Visibility," pp. 57-75 ...
>
> "The hidden depths and concealed realms which might
> encourage countercultural fantasies of a
> conspiratorial 'We-system' (as Gravity's Rainbow
> termed it) have thus all but disappeared in the world
> of Vineland.  Everything has become exposed (to use a
> film metaphor to which the novel itself is highly
> attuned) ....  On this reading, then, the final
> failure of the 1960s underground culture comes about
> not through any of the conspiratorial fanstasies of
> apocalypse which the counterculture predicted, but
> because there is nowhere left to hide.  Everything is
> visible, and everything is connected, producing a
> situation in which a routine sense of paranoia is
> paradoxically both no longer necessary, and more vital
> than ever." (p. 73)
>
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0208&msg=69706


Yes, traditionally conspiracy has depended upon secrecy and silence  
to effect the desired results. Its methods were primitive,  
characterized by such things as bombing-tossing and forged documents.  
This was before science stepped in to make conspiracy a full-blown  
technology, which our better universities will soon be offering a  
doctorate in.


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