Frenesi's Kinks

[Joseph Tracy]

> Robin Landseadel wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps, although she seems to want him back just as soon as he's  
>> gone.
>>
What choice doesn't invite regret? Brock is part of a mystery she  
wants to understand but I think Prairies  rejection of him as Father 
(future)  stands and he is sent to Hell and she is given an open  
future. .
>
>
>> In no way do I consider Brock to be on the side of the angels, but  
>> he seems
>> to have an awareness of the juvenile nature of the revolutionary  
>> wanna-bee's
>> of 24fps.
> Don't know if I buy this.  Some of the 24 fps are continuing and  
> they are getting more aware. Also if there is nothing for  
> Brock ,Reagan ,North, Nixon to worry about, everything safely  
> contained by capitalism  and consumerism, why build them camps, why  
> Kill Sandinistas, why  have a war on a Weed,  why hire creeps like  
> Vond and Rush? If media attention makes no difference why kill the  
> Al Jazeera Reporters in the hotel in Baghdad. Vond sees the  
> weakness of the lefties just like Rush does, but a lotta millions  
> go into exploiting and attacking that weakness.
>
The description gives a rather negative picture, or rather, a
	severe critique of the United States that appears as an infantile
	and strongly repressed nation in Pynchon’s vision.

>> The description gives a rather negative picture, or rather, a
>> 	severe critique of the United States that appears as an infantile
>> 	and strongly repressed nation in Pynchon’s vision.

Agreed  but the resistance is enough to seriously worry em.


>> Brock's the bad guy, but he's also one character in the book with  
>> some
>> minimal awareness of how all these "freaks" are, underneath it all,
>>  consumers to the bone, passive absorbers of the fantasies  
>> provided by the
>> Tube.
>>
> but we are all passive consumers of God's goodness.  The most
> industrious person in the world can still only really be grateful for
> bounties received.  Medieval as this homily may sound...
>
Again and again we get duped as a country by the tubemasters, but  
sometimes ordinary people see through it before the talking heads do.  
How long would the empire last without TV?
> -- 
>  - "Be groovy or B movie" - the old 24fps signoff