{"id":28487,"date":"2026-08-15T17:17:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T00:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=28487"},"modified":"2026-08-15T17:17:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T00:17:48","slug":"david-brins-phases-of-the-american-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2026\/08\/15\/david-brins-phases-of-the-american-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"David Brin&#8217;s Phases of the American Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Still under the weather, for a week now. I&#8217;m behind updating sfadb. I spent some time this afternoon refining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2026\/08\/14\/the-expansion-of-human-morality-the-relativity-of-good-and-evil\/\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a>. For now, not entirely irrelevant:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/blogger_img_proxy\/AEn0k_t_njZL_4Rei5TWbaHMb3mWy55060Pi_ahpPHrK6X4nd4TkRRjxhXdVsvL7yxBxZKOle3RXp2nuMCsoBTwhA4rnJkPSHGZsPpPeTQs0WKYsgQhefLkzTP-oLCYGfo9xMZvIj1OJjQqPKuVV=s0-d\" width=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brin has long portrayed American history as the same kind of transition between modes of human nature. He describes several &#8220;phases&#8221; of the ongoing American Civil War.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Brin, 19 Sep 2014<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/davidbrin.blogspot.com\/2014\/09\/phases-of-american-civil-war.html\">Phases of the American Civil War<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My point being that this conflict between the varieties of human nature has been playing out for centuries. At least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still under the weather, for a week now. I&#8217;m behind updating sfadb. I spent some time this afternoon refining yesterday&#8217;s post. For now, not entirely irrelevant: Brin has long portrayed American history as the same kind of transition between modes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2026\/08\/15\/david-brins-phases-of-the-american-civil-war\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-human-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28489,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28487\/revisions\/28489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}