Shields of Sang Froid

"you know you could have been some honey." popular lyric of an era bursting at the seams

The question which Delon leaves open in his early decade Frank Riva saga is what type of dialectical conversation he is having with with Gene Hackman as the hero against Nixon era interconnected systems apparatus in the name of security. Delon is suggesting a slightly more sophisticated argument than the mere assertion that, "the past is never really the past," to channel Faulkner before Faulkner drank himself to the temporary numbness of inebriation. Security naturally engenders paranoia, as the Gonzalez incident conveys. The White House, at least before Booth assassinated Lincoln-- the greatest American racist who ever served his country, was open to the American public, more or less a sad commentary on the fact that weapons manufacturers, no more than any other business interest, cannot stop themselves-- yet there is a reverberating aftermath that is essentially the life blood of Nixon's active political years. 

Delon suggests that no nation state ever truly decouples itself from it, implying, at least through France 2 television, that American innocence bleeds its own tyranny, not because it is analogous to a toddler having a tantrum (not entirely null and void, mind) but that European maturity avoids the worst of these psychic scars. Do we have international discussions about Napoleon's battlefield atrocities?

The mere mention of Watergate, however, sends progressives flocking to their favorite adaptation of Macbeth, and this is Alain's curious ingenuity with Riva, in an otherwise droll take on American thrillers. Delon says however The French Connection singed old world fingertips, the American psyche never gets over itself, is either unwilling, or unable, to be the adult in the room, and this has created the ever widening geopolitcal vacuum that some model will eventually have to fill, if you want to consider this as a continuing salvo in my overstated rebuttal to Greg Zacharias on the nature of conspiracy, this is inclusive of how self interest plays into it. Not just me, or you, or Greg, for that matter.

He and I had a few exchanges after I beat my breast about the "silly thing to say" comments which upset me back when. I told him I was toxic, if the academics wanted me to leave. He claimed someone else reprimanded me on the thread and that it was not he. That was that. Honors professor goes back to his citadel, and I back to my disenfranchisement, and pet causes roll on, none of us really willing to pay attention, or even get burned, as I have multiple times by now.

For those of you able to understand the correspondence I making with the description I tagged to Lincoln-- the comparison I am making is to challenge progressive labeling, not my political genius to that of Abraham. If I had Lincoln's political skills, Donald would have offered me a suite at Trump plaza