Look! Kushner articulates a deep Pynchon theme, maybe?

[Mark Kohut]

Tony Kushner has just said this in conjunction with his new play....it follows 
(and is relevant to other threads).
His observations using the phrase 'imaginative processes of democracy" I am glad 
beyond bounds that you led me to find.....those processes are more than voting 
and the whole turn to violence was societal and included some on the 
left....Altamont, as we've discussed, Kent State, Weatherunderground.....
http://dougmerlino.net/idealism-grinds-against-pragmatism/

When we use our limited experience, it has to be representative to be right. I 
agree with Paul that Kushner was speaking of more than voting and 
generalizing---a kind of hyperbole here. 




----- Original Message ----
From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
To: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>; pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Thu, May 19, 2011 2:00:05 PM
Subject: Re: Look! Kushner articulates a deep Pynchon theme, maybe?

On 5/19/2011 12:47 PM, Joseph Tracy wrote:
>  This notion is wildly exaggerated. I knew a fair number of anti-war activists 
>and radicals in the 60's and very few stopped voting. I saw far more apolitical 
>types from the working class join up with the Reagan cult or just not bother.
Tony was speaking hyperbolically.  I don't know exactly when he uttered 
these words, but I don't think he believed, or was understood to mean, 
that everyone in the New Left tore up their voter registration,  went 
underground, and turned violent. But the actions of a minority went a 
ways to discredit the New Left.

P







> On May 19, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:
>
>> On 5/19/2011 10:36 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>>> "I just feel the rejection at the end of the Sixties of the notion that real
>>> change can come through democratic means through this electoral system was 
an
>>> absolute catastrophe for humanity,” - Tony Kushner.
>>>
>> The forging of bonds between various antagonists in the Perestroika part of 
>>Angels in America was pretty democratically realized.
>>
>> P
>