Apocalypse Not! or What Pynchon got wrong: Bill Joy or Kill Joy?

[Joseph Tracy]

Checkin in to the p-list. So many Fonas and Terrances to choose from and so little time but thank gawd that he/r is always ready to remind us that the good news never stops  in the glorious homeland, here in the people's  cyber beerhall  where hoppy daze prove that the master bombadiers and high flying financial  patriots of the new world order, the kindly and wise captains of capital were always way ahead of the moralists and eco-nuts, the paranoids  and cringing peace lovers.  Hell, the future looks as bright as a balmy day in the Gulf of Mexico, a jaunt in Baghdad, playing on the beach at Fukusima. Just remember, to purchase is glorious, to suck the killer's cock is heroic, to criticize in designated protest areas and enjoy the pepper spray is the people's right,  to wave the flag of freedom is holy,  and to have your grandmother blown to bloody shit while picking okra is pretty much tough shit you pathetic raghead losers. You should have adjusted your investment portfolio.
On Oct 31, 2013, at 6:38 AM, Fiona Shnapple wrote:

> If Maxine Is is more Henry Adams than a parody of Adams, it can be
> argues that Pynchon's Luddite Vision was wrong. He simply got it
> wrong. Well, he's in good company. And, as he sez in the 1984
> Introduction, prophecy ain't exactly what writers do, it's what
> readers make of what writers write. Maybe age and 9-11 and family
> life....maybe reality, but something....makes this novel read like a
> great gasp from a dinosaur, or a dragon whose bones were once planted
> deep in the Earth, but now hang from wires in a museum around the
> corner.
> 
> 
> If our world survives, the next great challenge to watch out for will
> come -- you heard it here first -- when the curves of research and
> development in artificial intelligence, molecular biology and robotics
> all converge. Oboy. It will be amazing and unpredictable, and even the
> biggest of brass, let us devoutly hope, are going to be caught
> flat-footed. It is certainly something for all good Luddites to look
> forward to if, God willing, we should live so long.
> 
> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy.html
> 
> http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_luddite.html
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