On Nov 10, 2004, at 3:11 PM, David Brin wrote:
--- Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:To be fair, Dr. Brin explained several months ago that he was speaking figuratively when alluding to the rise of the Confederacy once more. He's speaking more of a mindset, a weltanschauung, than a literal trend that can be mapped by accents or regional voting preferences.
Indeed, except that "capitalists" scarcely describes the mind set. Indeen, that is a northern, progressive, modernist tradition.
Apropos the Confederacy metaphor, here's the latest meme whipping about the oh-so-liberal net:
<http://sensoryoverload.typepad.com/sensory_overload/2004/11/ free_states_vs_.html>
It's actually a little eerie how close the correlations are.
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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