Call It Capitalism

[alice wellintown]

The trouble is, it’s not always straightforward to disentangle the
positive paranoia from the negative, and impossible to know which side
everyone – including yourself – is really on. The more closely you
scrutinise the struggle between anarchist utopia and totalitarian
capitalism – also one of the threads in Against the Day (2006) – the
more interdependent they seem to be.

Thanks for the Review, Dave Monroe.


Poorly stated, but, this is quite correct. This struggle in Pynchon's
works often dives underneath the surface tension and there, or above,
we read about heretical movements. What the author's faith or
non-faith, the texts need to keep this tension in the realm of the
possible, the agnostic.