Talk about obnoxious...

[Occhidiangela]

On most of my point, I think I've said all that needs to be said. I'm not questioning your sovereignty, and I'm not engaging in some perverse identity crisis. Our fellow lurkers may draw their own conclusions.

On Texas, I take it you mean T.R. Fehrenbach's "Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans"? I'll give it a look.

-Jester
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Yes, that Fehrenbach. He's very good. I may be able to find a copy in a used book store around here, for cheap. If I can, I'll send it to you. :)

As to the Incas, and Peru, the cultural struggle you allude to is yet another manifestation of the Clausewitz quote in my sig, Jester. A cultural war is still a war, sometimes fought under arms, and sometimes "by other means." ;) Likewise the reconquista I alluded to further up.

Play is continuous.

I suggest also that the "Inca culture" is inferior, in the 21st century context, to what has since replaced it. Consider David Brin's critique of "Romantics" that Shadow posted a few months back. (The topic at the time was IIRC LoTR, but Brin's essay about the Romantics is germane.)

The "it was better 500 years ago" fantasy ignores that play is continuous. More iconoclasm to little useful end. I would not have thought you a champion of a reactionary agenda. I'll also argue that the true struggle is about power, and group identity.

Hey, wait, isn't that where we came in on this conversation? :whistling:

Occhi