M & D bait. From a review in LRofB

[Mark Kohut]

American Democracy's central argument is that democracy is first
cultural and social before it is political. On both historical and
sociological records, this is compelling and surely right. Democracy
is learned, practiced, (re)imagined, performed, and, above all, is it
is 'a sociology of publics' in the tradition of Habermas's public
sphere.

Thinking about this re M &D but I remember someone, some posts on
VINELAND (or another) here on the Plist which argued/stated that
Pynchon's basic political notion was to participate as a Citizen or
look what happens?

But, there is P's libertarian/anarchism anti-State strain Big Time.
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Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l