recent Huxley misc and perpetual Orwell book

[Joseph Tracy]

Pynchon synthesizes both because the neo-con types have done so; they are fundamentally not ideologues, that is simply upper level and intellctual manipulation appealing to a left brain society, but among themselves they are openly machiavellians. 

I personally feel that late Pynchon (Vineland on)is more lukewarm about  Sado-Masochism as a theater for working out one’s personal issues, but still carries these insights from GR about the reigning power structures. 
> On Jan 24, 2016, at 12:47 PM, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
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> This often comes up when I come across someone who has either read BNW or 1984, or both, and the first point often made is "well Huxley's prediction is the more accurate one." Might be true on the surface but Orwell, imo, offers a lot more in terms of control other than "boot-on-the-face" methods, as Huxley puts it. And the boots are not exactly on US faces, true, but they are and have been on many faces around the globe. Seems to me Pynchon synthesizes both in GR
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> "The philosophy of the ruling minority in Nineteen Eighty-Four is a sadism which has been carried to its logical conclusion by going beyond sex and denying it." - AH letter
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> "But why are we taught to feel reflexive shame whenever the subject comes up? Why will the Structure allow every other kind of sexual  behavior but that one? Because submission and dominance are resources it needs for its very survival. They cannot be wasted in private sex. In any kind of sex. It needs our submission so that it may remain in power. It needs our lusts after dominance so that it can co-opt us into its own power game. There is no joy in it, only power. I tell you, if S and M could be established universally, at the family level, the State would wither away." - GR
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> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 1:31 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Open Culture ‏@openculture  2m2 minutes ago
> Huxley to Orwell: My Hellish Vision of the Future is Better Than Yours (1949) http://goo.gl/XYH0mk  
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