Peter Coviello: Vineland Reread

[Thomas Eckhardt]

On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 07:49:42 -0500
  Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not quite. That is only part of it, although Frenesi is 
>of course a key
> part.
> It is about how this nation failed to enact the possible
> countercultural vision
> that the ending of CoL49 opened up to. It is about how 
>America fell from
> ideals (again) to cartoon visions of itself. How the 60s 
>generation could
> not keep it going with a real political coalition. 
>Simplistically, I offer
> timidly,
> how we sold out.

Perhaps, but with regard to the 60s it is also about COINTELPRO, i.e. the US 
government using counterinsurgency measures against its own citizens.