What can reading Pynchon teach us about the internet?

[John Bailey]

This is a great response, Mark. It's GRxCOL49=BE

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 9:46 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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