> > "America is obviously waiting for a message of some sort" [David
> > Byrne/Brian Eno]
>
> Could be, but I would like to see an argument both for the validity of
> the statement as description of present reality _and_ for the (implied)
> _non-applicability_ of the proposition in respect to any other time in
> the last century or so.
>
> Carrol
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Unlike Samuel Beckett, America was not waiting for Godot after WWII; contrast that with the popularity of the "Left Behind" series and fundies thinking recent US foreign policy would operationalize the end times..............