Like the Millennium Falcon

[Angus Grieve-Smith]

> Change often occurs at the margins in response to specific problems 
> <http://youtu.be/X-rkFaIPyL4> that are solved imperfectly. ... Moving 
> pictures of the Hollywood kind often help us see the world 
> differently. Lucas' vision of a "used future" reminds us that the 
> present is really an accretion of many pasts, and we shouldn't ignore 
> those origins in our theories of political development.

... Nor, I would argue, in our theories of language.

http://dartthrowingchimp.wordpress.com/2012/12/02/states-are-like-the-millennium-falcon/

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				-Angus B. Grieve-Smith
				Saint John's University
				grvsmth at panix.com