re Amerikaka (NP?)

[MalignD at aol.com]

<<It seems that we are destined to clash, you and I, not so much over means 
and ends, but rather over knowledge itself.>> 

I'm not sure destiny plays a part. 

<<Either everything is connected, and therefore relevant, to various degrees, 
or nothing is ...>>

This seems a false and forced choice.  "Some things are connected and some 
things are not"  describes the world as I experience it. 

<<If fiction makes sense, then why can't it be relevant?>>

I didn't say fiction couldn't be relevant; I said that the relevance of the 
cite in the particular instance was not.

<<If the past can't be relevant, then what can be?>>

Pokler is a made-up character; he never existed;  he isn't part of the "past" 
as I trust you intend the word to be understood.