On Rereading Pynchon

[Mark Kohut]

...Please stuff your "believe me, Mark" condescension, Jochen.....I'll bet
I know more about earlier 'revolutions' than you do.

Read McLuhan's *Understanding Media *(or again,  if necessary) and know
that "the extensions of man", the summary meaning
may have started with the pen or certainly the gutenberg press as Marshall
says, and this either-orness you foolishly present
would be rejected by Pynchon for whom the non-binary is part of his
vision...I dare to arrogantly say......

False equivalence and single issue questions just like Have you stopped
beating your wife?".....

yes to Trump; there were demagogues elected in the past...and Yes to a
storm on the Capitol....read into the details....
"the things I enjoy"???   like self-pleasuring and eating peanuts, shell
and all? ...

It is about ALL it does.......social media is us and we are it........THAT
is McLuhan's insight....

You're not so far as 'the world wide web"?....LOL....Many start there,
LOL.....

On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 12:13 PM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> It may be an idiosyncrasy of mine (one of many) but I think the world
> would be a better place without facebook and twitter – perhaps even without
> the world wide web but I'm not so far yet.
>
> Would there have been a Trump without Twitter? A storm on the Capitol? Is
> that the price you are willing to pay for the things it delivers to you,
> the things you enjoy?
>
> And believe me, Mark, there were revolutions before Twitter & Facebook.
>
> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
>
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