I just wandered on in looking for posts about Abraham Lincoln, and while your post is really funny, I'm just wondering if the Gettysburg Address really does confuse you. What seems to underlie the Gettysburg Address, ironically enough, is another way of viewing history than the one we've been taught - we look at history as a bunch of facts which can be verified via a more scientific methodology (i.e. carbon dating, books of records, eyewitness accounts). Lincoln viewed American history as the tension between liberty and equality, and what the heck, I'll just point you to my post here (http://inrethinking.blogspot.com/2007/05/is-democracy-feasible-reflections-on.html).
Sorry to spam you like this; you seem really well-read, and I thought I might as well say hi and that I did appreciate the post and yeah, drop a link too.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2007-06-02 04:56 am (UTC)Sorry to spam you like this; you seem really well-read, and I thought I might as well say hi and that I did appreciate the post and yeah, drop a link too.