re Re: MDDM Gershom's Intervention

[Monte Davis]

>It's tough for a lot of people to face the truth that Washington and the
>rest of the Founding Fathers, despite some good intentions, recreated the
>same kinds of inequality and oppression they sought to escape in Europe;
>it's much easier to grasp at the myth that somehow they managed to avoid
>doing that.  But that's a myth that Pynchon shatters in M&D.

Some cutting-edge radical thinkers (Aristotle, Avicenna, Bacon, Bentham, et
al) have come up with a popopomo notion they call _per genus et
diffferentiam_.

They say it makes it possible to consider that the FF might have created
something that was the same in some important respects (slavery, patriarchy,
marginalization of women and indigenes, etc.)

...and different in other important respects (no monarchy, written
constitution denying some powers to government, disestablishment of
religion, wider franchise than anywhere ever before, etc.)

Crazy stuff, eh?

-Monte