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To consciously awaken to the deeper – better deepest – elements of the surrounding daily mundane sleep inside beliefs, attitudes,…

Knowing History deeply is not only an intellectual position. In depth, it is a personal relation to the world and human society.

The election, then the reelection of clearly intellectually and morally unfit person to be president, and the acquiescence of Republican Senators and House members shows the failure of character in the USA. 

History is in any vital way irrelevant to those so* deeply immersed in the present.

*too

… those for whom books are their only lonely, real conversations.

How often many books one must dig through before finding the insight sought.

JRRT describing to Deborah Webster (Letter 213) his being a “hobbit”, and how, does not lend itself to attributing to the LOTR any lasting depth of realistic cacosophical insight.

*http://steppenwolfmoscow1.blogspot.com/2014/05/cacology-cacosophy-pathosophy.html?m=1

While it is also obvious, it is worth reconsidering and reflecting on that “words (of inspiration)” are of such importance and influence in the inner and outer lives of individual humans and societies.

Eg.: Lincoln at Gettysburg (and even then heard by few) November 19, 1863.

Most people not being serious, can one seriously get angry with them?