BEER ch 88,89—Beyond Good and Evil

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Sure, there's ambiguity all over the place. But then again Ernie's 
historical excursion to the roots of the Internet in the Cold War (pp. 
417-420) as well as Eric's related diagnosis ("We're being played, Maxi, 
and the game is fixed, and it won't end till the Internet - the real 
one, the dream, the promise - is destroyed", p. 432) do sound rather 
Luddite in my ears. Hard to tell how much of this is Pynchon's own 
agenda, but the formulated position is not downplayed by irony. Rather 
the opposite.

 > Back to that podcast - the speaker who hated the novel states at the 
start that she didn't get into BE's overt anti-technology theme, which 
left me thinking "what anti-technology theme?" Did anyone else get that 
from the novel? P's work doesn't suggest that technology is neutral, but 
as the Sloth essay indicates neither is his knee a-jerking in a 
particular technology's direction.<

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