The Sloth of Luddite Sorrow in Thomas Pynchon’s Writings

Abstract

The technological inventions have been dominating the present times. The world is in awe of the way AI is replacing human intelligence but not without a remorse fear of the threat of apocalypses this AI and Scientific expansion could cause. The scientific and technological advancement has made the imperialism, subjugation and exploitation seamless and transcendent. The public fail to recognize this transcendent exploitation as their vision is outshined by miraculous sophistication these inventions ducks human life with. Some good minds might envision the ramifications but fear to be branded as luddites. Almost thirty nine years ego Pynchon foresees the paradoxical paranoia and reassures to be fine be a luddite. He professes that a person with the sloth of luddite sorrow is a real human defeating the merciless omniscient exploitation. Though this vision of Pynchon pervades all his novels, my article refers to his magna Opus Gravity’s Rainbow and his mature novel Vineland to illustrate his vision.