What can reading Pynchon teach us about the internet?

[Mark Thibodeau]

Pynchon's work was at the forefront of my mind because I've been
researching PizzaGate, and some of the things I've discovered about
the dark actors behind the current iteration of the Internet (the fake
news brouhaha is very real, and very important, and poorly understood)
have been blowing my tiny little mind.

I'll post the blog article here once it's done.

YOPJ

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 6:10 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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