Excited, hitting the nerve.

Spurred on by a friend [or acquaintance? I don't know him that well yet; he's a friend of yet another a distant and elusive friend/acquaintance], I started to think about all the times where I had an intuition about where things were heading, but where the people I chose to share my feelings with weren't there yet. Invariably, it would result in the idea that I had just shared gaining no traction and dying a little death, and maybe a little of myself dying along with it.

Until I see the idea reborn at someone else's hand some time down the road, at which time I feel really, really good about myself. Like with the Obama race speech. I wonder what Victor et al think now? Six months ago, I badgered them about the absence of an American identity, and questioned why they persisted in thinking about mundane things like healthcare and security, when, for the next presidential election to be meaningful in any way, was for the conversation to turn away from such petty things and move instead towards the heart of the thing -- identity. Especially with a black man running for president.


Part 1 of 5 [see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8flxGDg6Nho for the rest]


In the wake of "A More Perfect Union", I came across one of many essays that I'm sure I'll start seeing more of, which breaks down the Obama phenomenon using hard philosophy. I am excited about where things are headed.