BE -- "death wish for the planet" why the internet?

[Mark Thibodeau]

Do you really?! Still?! Even today?!

I surely can't say the positives outweigh the negatives. The mass
alienation is bad enough, but the rationalization and justification that
the newfound COMMUNITIES of perversion and hate have provided to heretofore
marginal asshats (nazis, pedos, etc) surely have yet to be fully measured
and taken into account.

Zerzan/Unibomber seem more prescient to me with every passing day.

On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 7:54 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Like me.
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> On Friday, March 4, 2016, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I think a lottttt of people believe that today.
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>> On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>> > Are we talking about Maxine’s belief that the internet is a
>> democratizing tool? I think a lot of smart people had that idea at the
>> time. Harder now.
>> >> On Mar 4, 2016, at 4:49 PM, Thomas Eckhardt <
>> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Let me qualify: I agree that this is done rather heavy-handedly. But I
>> still think BE is a wonderful -- and mysterious -- novel.
>> >>
>> >> Am 04.03.2016 um 22:18 schrieb Thomas Eckhardt:
>> >>> I agree.
>> >>>
>> >>>> whatever the POV it doesnt work very well as written--Pynchon sets
>> >>>> Maxine up--we're supposed to believe she's whip smart and yet he
>> gives
>> >>>> her the dumbest lines imaginable to prove a point.
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