Bartleby and Occupy and short hist of sit-ins

[Mark Kohut]

Could be a defense of Pynchon's vision of privacy, yes?
Nice.


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From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2012 6:26 AM
Subject: Re: Bartleby and Occupy and short hist of sit-ins

> Maybe not educate as much as expose.


Haven't we enough exposure? Is not the Public too much in the public
eye; we have become a nation of exhibitionists & voyeurs, a nation of
sloganeering revisionists who call themselves historians, a nation of
Jersey Shore Yahoos subjected to the analysis of Jerry Springer arm
chair psychologists, a nation of Margaret Mead's peeping in on
Polynesians life over the trailer park fence, a nation driven by the
primitive intinct to reach out and touch and groom clansmen, but a
nation that has fallen in love with shadows of narsisisstic
communication.  Expose this. Expose what? Expose yourself. It is not
capital or the system that makes automatons of free people. It is
exposure. The extra ordinary human contact,  that humans need, it's
that private investigation. The Inherent Vice, our peeping and
exposure, while a natural vice, has evolved at an un-natural speed and
has grown to big brother proportions. Look at me. Look at you. Look at
what they are doing now. Surely we need to expose bad government, bad
history, bad business, bad education... But exposure, the camera is a
gun, the mob is a statement, protest is a position, has inherent vices
that we must guard against. Exposure is a limited means not an end.
And it is hardly the only method people can employ to resist tyranny
and corruption and all manner of abuses of power. The sit-in, the
staying put at the work station, but stopping or slowing down or
sicking-out production, is a form of control. Give it with exposure
and new forms of control will relace it. see Zinn PHUS
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