Posted by C. H. Cook on 5/10/2002, 1:24 am To the future americanadianist: I would like to take a quick moment to highlight the significance and importance of Snyders post to which I post this response, or rather, referendum. However, before I dive into a lengthy glorification of SnyderI would like to first address the point that this is my first post. This is significant, because I like to think of americanada as my illegitimate child; I both want to embrace the ideal of change, like so many hippies, and keep my distance from the inherent absurdity of a Can-American union. So I write, as one whom embraces the idea in the fun of what could beIn what I can assume must be a similar manner to Church, and perhaps, even Snyder. Snyder was dead on in his analysis of the nature of an ideal. Ideals must be viewed both as unachievable, but realistic. I liken this to the American Dream and the will to gain wealthsomething we all strive for individually and collectively. Although this is something that we strive for there is infinitely more that we want to obtain, hence, we will never be satisfied. The same must be true for americanada. Snyder states that when someone strives for an ideal, say world peace, one realizes, or should realize, the obstacles and realistic problems facing the ideal. This is that although it may never be perfect there still is this desire to dream. This can even be likened to the founding fathers in America. American democracy was not something that was solved over night. We as Americans have yet to obtain a true theoretical democracy. Currently, third parties do not have equal representation; currently, there is an electoral college. These are things that we have and continue to work onand it must be the same with americanada. I quote an essay I composed as an argument for americanada in which I say: During the time that will lead up to the unification, before the americanadiansts and other americanadian theorists are finally actualized as true americanadians, there will be much debate over the nature of americanada. This is a call to debatea call to a dialectic and a manifestation of an americanadian dream with some semblance of solidarity. By all means let us all be the theorists and let us all talk about what americanada is and what it could be. To americanadaAnd as it is said tis the future.
May 10, 2002
Kent, OH
Cook
