rwe/77; i know you know, but for them others, General Anthony McAuliffe –known as “Nuts” McAuliffe after the battle of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.

DJ/76; i think you’re right –’collective vs individual’ is all language construct and not of real life, as it doesn’t move its units thru time, and no one has ever had a human relationship with a collective. It’s a stagnant pond, a mile wide and an inch deep, and evaporating all the time, hoping for another rain of misery to avoid drying up and blowing away. The real, non-category-error, collective is the three-generation human ‘active unit’ –an inch wide but a mile deep, and flowing at all times. This unit has about a forty year flood phase, overlapping of course with the unit in front and the one behind, as well as on both kin sides. One notes with some trepidation that neither of Obama’s SCOTUS ladies have reproduced –so that they’ve made certain their connection to the future will be academic and soon timed out; never instinctive nor organic as it would be had they turned loved hostages over to the judgement of the future.