Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:02:32 PM
A writer William Gibson is famous for inventing the word "cyberspace," way back in 1982. In his latest novel, Spook Country, he is inventing another striking term - "A cold civil war".
"Useful" novel by William Gibson
Quotation from novel Spook Country by William Gibson:
Alejandro looked over his knees. "Carlito said there is a war in America."
"A war?"
"A civil war."
"There is no war, Alejandro, in America."
"When grandfather helped found the DGI, in Havana, were the Americans at war with the Russians?"
"That was the 'cold war.' "
Alejandro nodded, his hands coming up to grip his knees. "A cold civil war."
Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky:
The term "a cold civil war." invented by William Gibson is missing a very important point. The Nation is currently at Ideological Civil War. The difference is crucial.
A Cold War is the war of deterring with just a theoretical possibility to be turned into a hot confrontation.
An Ideological Civil War is an incessant battle for hearts and minds of the American people.
The current U.S. Ideological Civil War is a direct result of ideological immaturity of the predominant majority of the American people refusing to accept the reality of ideological Battle and personal responsibility to "preserve, protect and defend" absolute Ethics and perfect Esthetics of the Constitution of the United States in every day life from ideological enemies of the Nation and their domestic collaborators.
A defeat in the U.S. Ideological Civil War means a triumph of "wrong ideologies" and may cause a political, economic, social and cultural destruction of the existing U-nion and loss of the National Sovereignty.