Zoyd

[Richard Fiero]

Rob Jackson wrote:
  . . .
>VL is Pynchon's diagnosis of the failure of the 60s revolution.   . . .

"LATER than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake . . ."
It's 1984 dude, not the sixties.  The failure of the sixties would be 
to allow Reagan to further oppress the underclass with massive 
transfers of wealth from the poor to the rich. Just about every 
character in VL games the system since that is what is incentivized.
Get off the sixties.
     This land is your land, this land is my land
     From California to the New York Island
     From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters
     This land was made for you and me.
I mean MINE all MINE.