The Counterforce

[Mark Kohut]

Wow...grid, countergrid moving from invisible to visible and then two parallel societies....
 
Jonathan's vision parallels TRP's a lot or else the vision influence is massive....

From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
To: "“pynchon-l at waste.org“" <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Sunday, March 4, 2012 12:15 AM
Subject: The Counterforce


The trip from Qusayr to Homs, about thirty kilometres, was made in the same way: by going from one house to another, from one vehicle to another, from one hand to another. A wide network of civilians helps the FSA and the revolution. At every stage, a car or a truck or a motorbike goes in front to check if the road is free. And when we moved, there were always people in front, around, behind us; mobiles were continually ringing in with the latest news. Everything happens as if a grid has been put in place to counter the police and security grid of the Ba’ath Party and the mukhabarats that has dominated the life of the country for decades, and in which the entire population, in one way or another, is caught. The counter grid, almost as effective, is made of civilian activists, notables, religious figures and, more and more, armed forces – the deserters who form the FSA. The counter grid resists the other one, circumvents it, and is even starting to
 absorb it in part. When you travel between the Lebanese border and Homs, it becomes visible. There has, of course, always been passive resistance to the regime’s grid, but now this second grid has completely broken away. As if Syrian society, since the spring, had split in two, and parallel societies were coexisting in the country, in mortal conflict.

Jonathan Littell, Syrian Notebooks

http://www.lrb.co.uk/2012/03/01/jonathan-littell/syrian-notebooks
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