The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

Son of Witz · 17 Mar 2009, 17:43 · from 2009-March.txt.gz

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From: sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:43:25 +0000
Subject: (urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe
Message-ID: <W1167627383113651237311805@webmail42>



>Anyway, the "Wild West" is too imbeded, it seems to me, on the minds of the Americans. That's normal. Plus, there's the constitution. The conquest of the vast and wild frontier, frontier life, and the inerent dangers of such a setting, all this was pretty different from the european experience in the 19th century. I think this is something, together with your constitution, that is still pretty much alive in your minds. It generates passions regarding the whole "guns or no guns" issues that are completely alien to europeans.


That's how I took your post, and I thought it was an interesting insight. I didn't take it as a dis on Americans.  Of course, not all of our families were even here during the wild west, but it's suffused into the culture, for sure.

~witz

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