John Kerry

[Preechr]

I'm not sure your comparison to the days of Lincoln wasn't so apt. I'd venture there's a lot of similarities, and I'm not alone. I wonder if you've heard the former NJ governor's recent comments trying to compare Hillary's virtually non-existent commitment to the gay-marriage movement to Lincoln's similarly reluctant (and entirely only convenient) "push" for the rights of slaves?

Well, being a Southerner, I guess I could see Lincoln in just about anything, so I'll try to not go off on a tangent there...

The reason I was asking for your perspective is that I think a post-modern guy is better prepared to see the nuances in our predominantly post-modern era than would be a more romantic person as I tend to be. I can empathize, but I still don't quite get it. Post-modernism is just alien science to me. I suppose I'm just not that practical of a person.

While practical relativity (a phrase I'm making up just for this) has always existed among the elite classes, we are just now living through a time where it is the dominant social and political philosophy among, well, everybody. Didn't your namesake forsake his own deconstruction model in his later years? When you say way more insidious, I just see out of control.

The Civil War was a kickback to lobbyists moreso than to any particular contistuency when you look at it in terms of numbers. Hell, who's to say Ben Franklin and Tomas Jefferson were no more than lobbyists for some cause? What was it, like 12% of Americans estimated to have been ideologically behind the Revolution itself?

Post-modernism could not be the name of our era if Stoicism were not in fact dead. Practical relativity is so obviously flawed a way of existence (to me, I supose) I can't see around waiting for everybody else to figure that out to witness it's evolution toward that eventual end.

"So yeah, shit is nasty..." Is it nasty enough now to change for the better... finally?