Paranoia & Pleasure: It's the video games, stupid

[Bled Welder]

http://www.hulu.com/watch/359689#i0,p0,d0


On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Mach Thomberi <machthomberi at gmail.com>wrote:

> Gawd blaw blaww lunatic blabblaw.
>
> Did you say something, Blaw?   I wouldn't think so, only to be watching
> who beings who think they are something, more than that, no nothing.
>
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> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 1:14 PM, alice wellintown <
> alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In a smart essay on Vineland, Richard Brurket argues that VL insists
>> that the combination of paranoia and pleasure is no accident, but is a
>> cultivated and solicited response to the force of law in America. The
>> post-60s crew suffer from a sickness far more insidious than the one
>> that Benny and Stencil searched for and avoided, an approach that is a
>> close cousin to the paranoid pleasures of the post 60s boomers and the
>> violent and cynical enthusiams of their children, and it share a
>> family resemblance to the mindless pleasures of Slothrop's paranoid
>> trippings through the zone, but it is darker because it involves a
>> resignation, a surrender to the forces of and violent abuse of law.
>> This cynical certitude, a sense that the law is what is, a violent
>> force that one can more avoid nor challange, causes the boomers'
>> children to reject the movements, peace, civil rights, feminist...of
>> their parents and join the violent supression of those who would
>> challange the violent enforcement of law. So King and Park, though not
>> present in the novel, are tossed under the bus. Popular culture,
>> delivered by the Tube solicits and manufactures a consent, a paranoid
>> pleasure in the voyeur who watches the violent abuse of others by law
>> enforement. Prarie's boyfriend, the violence enthusiast who has his
>> finger on the pulse of the young generation sees this trend not a a
>> danger to democracy or to civil rights but as a business opportunity.
>> Yes, it's the video games.
>>
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