On Sep 13, 2004, at 8:51 PM, David Brin wrote:
In effect, ladies and gents, what we are seeing is the conquest of the United States of America by the Confederacy.
This is probably one of the single most socially fascinating suggestions I've come across in months. The more I think about it, the more sense it seems to make. Not literally, but in some very interesting and oblique ways.
For instance the separation of the Southern Baptists from the parent Baptist body on the grounds that it (the parent) is too liberal. Or the perpetual low fester that racism has maintained even after a stake was presumably driven through its heart 50 years ago by "activist judges" -- which is now, once again, a dirty word, thanks to the same kinds of voices (many with the same kind of accent!) that decried desegregation in the 1950s.
Apparently Strom Thurmond's wretched shade is yet shambling and drooling about the countryside.
(This is why I prefer SF over all. A good SF writer tends to be a social philosopher as well.)
-- WthmO
"Egalitarianism" does NOT mean "Rule by the least common denominator". --
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