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Is Tommy Tuberville more or less stupid than the average Alabamian? 

History is full of fools. What makes it more difficult is knowing their names.

Willful ignorance perhaps reaches its maximum when the person is willfully ignorant of their own ignorance. 

Most live all of their lives in our time in history barely tecognizant of the national psychic suit in which they live their lives and have their being.

Dante finds himself in a metaphoric “dark forest”, whereas Thoreau in reality goes into a real swamp nearby. For Dante the dark forest prevents him where he would go, on a path leading onwards and upwards… Whereas for HDT, the swamp is an end in itself.

It would not take hours, not an hour… perhaps only 5 to 10 minutes listening to the public mass media acclaims of unity and emotional experience,… the significance of viewing the eclipse all altogether… to recognize why Hesse would write such a book as Steppenwolf. In fact, Hermann Hesse’s 1927 words on Amerika in his autobiographical Steppenwolf are even truer now.

Is there even one human who can use the word “sacred” and it not have an earthified meaning?

For ages an eclipse forebode doom, apocalypse… Now most talk is of the unifying experience that Americans can have.

Compare the cosmographies, angelographies, anthropologies and postmortems of Zarathustra, Dante, Dickens.

All establishing, assuming, and demanding different lives of men and women incarnate, than the relatively simple problem of sin and salvation.