Professor Elam

Sunday Feb 12, 2012

No coubt some of you think I am just going on about socionomics, and how social mood shapes our perceptions. Well hw about, yes, Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter?

As Dave Barry says, I can't mae this stuff up…

There is a good column in today's Express News about how te view of Lincoln changes with the times. It is apparently not on the internet so no link.

The 1940s adn 50s saw Lincoln as a traditional post war hero. That puts him right there with Ike as the one who won the War. that is to be expected. 

By the 60s and 70s he was a counter culture figure in WE Can Build You. Then he was a cyborg struggling to live in a world cominated by rapacious capitalism, really.

Speilberg will have a film viewing him through the prism of political genius. 

But with vampires on the loose in bookstores and theaters and tv, go figure, now presumably he is armed with a hammer and wooden stake….

Hey no kidding, this movie has a $70 M budget,