What can reading Pynchon teach us about the internet?

[Mark Thibodeau]

That invisible, unknowable, and incredibly powerful systems of control
are operating from a quasi-omniscient remove from our mundane daily
lives, and that the operators of these systems have at their disposal
mechanisms that allow them an almost incomprehensibly precise level of
granularity in terms of their ability to observe and manipulate - and
yet, if you were to divorce these demigod-like devices, systems, and
operators from their dull and common context (i.e., the targets of
their observation and manipulation, i.e. us)... they would become
completely meaningless and worthless. So the joke is on them maybe?

So why am I always crying?


On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 5:21 AM, Alexei du Périer
<alexei.duperier at gmail.com> wrote:
> That They are out there to get Us.
>
> 2016-12-15 11:04 GMT+01:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
>>
>> The internet is as human and as murderous as 'the real world' which it
>> also is.
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 1:54 AM, Lemuel Underwing <luunderwing at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Or what has it taught you?
>>
>>
>
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