"The fucking fascists who call the shots haven't stopped needing races to hate each other, it's how they keep wages down, and rents high, and all the power over on the East Side, and everything ugly and brain-dead just the way they like it." What did Thomas Pynchon's character mean by this?
Seems pretty straightforward to me.
This book really lends credence to the theory that Pynchon died and someone else is ghostwriting now. It's so devoid of depth.
>>9917923
I’d believe it, desu.
Is fascism the most misused word in history?
>>9917923
We are all Pynchon now maybe? Like a vortex of anonymous spilling onto the known authority, but the lineup is long and the bouncers picky. Sort of like a Grimace outfit that anyone can put on, but do to legal repercussions, only a few chosen by a select team of Mcd's elite will have that chance to stand on the edge of the restaurant's property and wave at people and cars, or cars full of people?
>>9917993
It's probably on par with communism
>>9918015
If anything, Pynchon is the Hamburgler of literature.
>>9917993
No, autism is; although it, ironically, describes the post I'm replying to perfectly. Whomst' would have thought?
>>9917993
He's not misusing the term though.
>>9918071
He is misusing the term, unless you're a leftist.
For everyone else, fascism means a distinct kind of radical authoritarianism; for leftists however, anything that isn't socialist is fascist.