Pynchon Quoted

[David Morris]

>From Jeffrey St Clair's Facebook news feed:

Thomas Pynchon: "Never forget your Internet was Their invention, this
magical convenience that creeps now like a smell through the smallest
details of our lives, the shopping, the housework, the homework, the taxes,
absorbing our energy, eating up our precious time. And there's no
innocence. Anywhere. Never was. It was conceived in sin, the worst
possible. As it kept growing, it never stopped carrying in its heart a
bitter-cold death wish for the planet, and don't think anything's changed,
kid. Call it freedom, it's based on control. Everybody connected together,
impossible anybody should ever get lost, ever again. Take the next step,
connect it to these cell phones, you got a total Web of surveillance,
inescapable. You remember the comics in the Daily News? Dick Tracy's wrist
radio? It'll be everywhere, the rubes'll all be begging to wear one,
handcuffs of the future. Terrific. What they dream about at the Pentagon,
worldwide martial law."
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