American Death (and hope?)

[Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt]

john m writes:

>                      So, having just read and not 
> reflected, since I wouldn't want to taint my .02 US eye pyramid dollar with reason, 
> or temper it w/ tolerance, it seems to me that hag's the most nationalist-minded of 
> all. 

of all what? if you insist of insulting me, please ensure that I 
understand the insult so that I may be properly peeved! (he says, 
glancing suspiciously over his shoulder, fearing there might be an 
AMERICAN lurking, waiting to pounce on the native)
 
> But that's just a currently fashionable revisionist thesis, hag, as radical in its way as 
> the claim that the holocaust was just a film!  Those purple mountain majesties will 
> eventually reduce all ideologies to alluvial dust, from whence might spring--?

Hmm, let's see... how about, uhh, er, a beer-drinking song? yes! 
that's good! a beer-drinking song. Btw, just which ideologies wouldn't 
you want to see reduced to alluvial dust?
 
>                               IMHO his America 
> means that there's still a chance, a last first place, and if it's anywhwere, it's here, in 
> a place aptly named by the Firesign Theater way back when as only  
> TEMPORARILY HUMBOLDT COUNTY.  

sorry, you've lost me; "here" means?

>                           Don't set up false dischotomies over 
> bitter beer.  To posit hope requires as little allegiance to a nation/state as to posit 
> redemption or salvation require an anthropomorphic, patriarchal god, er, gad, er 
> whatever.

If that is so, maybe you could explain what 'redemption' or 'salvation' means?
 
> Love ya, you old curmudgeonly--whatever you are

I'm just an ignorant peasant from the Third World, bewildered at the 
strange things this computer says to me, always pretending to be 
someone else...

hg
hag at iafrica.com