TP or NP? Trial Balloon goes up

[Monte Davis]

Mark Kohut sez:

 

Technology has made it easier for the System, for a few, for They (as representatives of Us, busy,
complacent, trying to live under history as a State of Seige).

 

I’m not at all sure about that: I’d argue that it’s harder to control a society today than it was for priest/kings in Mesopotamia and Egypt (the latter the longest-lasting System we know of). And one of the most fascinating aspects of the evolving Intercloud is that hacks and workarounds seem to proliferate even faster than governmental or corporate schemes for Total Information Awareness.

 

Agreed on the ambivalence of anarchism – as I wrote that I was thinking narrowly about Webb’s terrorism and the damage his, uhh, dedication does to his family, not to mention those train passengers who *aren’t* Vibe goons. But of course anarchism is deliberately multivalent throughout AtD, and there are places throughout Pynchon’s work where it’s identified with a return to prelapsarian bliss.

 

     

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