What can reading Pynchon teach us about the internet?

[Mark Thibodeau]

Thanks!

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 5:56 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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