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Rick V's avatar

Hmm. "The actors and writers will make it appear as if reality has always been as such and that there is no alternative to the coming system which we are to live under." Sounds kinda familiar.

And even more so with what follows: "When it does finally emerge and people have accepted their fate as a natural reality, few if any will look back, visit their ‘Home Planet,’ or question when it was (or why it was) that things changed."

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Andrew H.'s avatar

Entirely too familiar. Pynchon is definitely getting at the fact that the events of the 18th century pretty accurately predicted those of the 20th and that it should be absolutely no surprise that anything ended up this way. Which proves that complicity, silence, or lack of action when presented with such evidence will only ever lead to a new or worse era of whatever was happening before.

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Rick V's avatar

Which is exactly what we're seeing today, not to put too fine a point on it. .

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