Zoyd

[Robin Landseadel]

On Aug 23, 2009, at 6:34 AM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> No matter what we attribute the "failure" of the sixties to, the  
> fact is, there was something -- a spirit, an ideology, an idealism -  
> to fail.

There was the "Civil Rights Movement," a genuinely radical  
transformation of racial politics—shifting things like the value of  
human life— that is still struggling to truly emerge into full flower.  
There were neo-luddite movements in the rise and fall of communes.  
There was a transformation of consciousness set off by the presence of  
psychedelics but also moving into Buddhism & other "non-scheduled  
theologies." Above all—viz. the 60's and Pynchon—there is the emerging  
model of Gaia and the emerging knowledge of the deep interconnection  
in nature.

The neo-cons do everything in their power to undermine these facts.  
Alice is a pitiful example of this. There is no good light for him to  
present these movements, there're all issues to be discarded and  
devalued as quickly and nastily as possible. And there were the forces  
available to the plutocrats and technocrats like the CIA:

http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pynchon%27s_California_Trilogy_and_the_CIA

. . . that Pynchon goes to great pains to introduce into his stories,  
to show their developing histories [viz. Gravity's Rainbow and Against  
the Day—vast spy networks for hire by those with the wherewithal] and  
the consequences of their retrograde actions.