For Score and Seven Eons Ago

I think you nailed it.  The juxtaposition is very striking.

Thanks for sharing.

Also, could it be that Lincoln was the relentless coldly rational Borg trying, in the War of Northern Aggression (sic) to assimilate the South and its “Way of Life” and “Traditional Domestic Institutions” ? Remember in another context, “intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic” Never underestimate the lengths the TIDOS imagination will go.

I dunno. It seems precisely like “Obama’s Lincoln” to me — a great orator under the compelling influence of some dark and amoral force (the corporate-capitalist hegemony? the military industrial complex?).  

Also I see this in the context of Obama’s escalating and proliferating drone wars — “drone Commander-in-Chief”.