Reply #35: well -- for my money -- those three events create

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our modern -- or post, post modern reality.

all of us today filter everything -- including the words of our forefathers, great events like the civil war, etc through those.

even our enemies do -- sort of in the way that we are all of us marxists -- because that's how profound the observations of marx were.

bill kristol or william f buckley are products of those revolutionary and relevatory moments.
they suffer horribly from an anxiety of influence -- to borrow from harold bloom -- the poet scholar.

i commend you on these threads -- because we truly need to have a discussion on the Character of america and americans.

well done.