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“Ach, es ist schwer, diese Gottesspur zu finden inmitten dieses Lebens, das wir fuhren, inmitten dieser so sehr zufriedenen, so sehr bürgerlichen, so sehr geistlosen Zeit, im Anblick dieser Architekturen, dieser Geschäfte, dieser Politik, dieser Menschen. Wie sollte ich nicht ein Steppenwolf und ruppiger Eremit sein inmitten einer Welt, von deren Zielen ich keines teile, von deren Freude keine zu mir spricht?” — from Hesse’s Steppenwolf

What kind of a person is it who lives in and by inherited emotions and beliefs, and can barely speak beyond clichéa?

His success was his demise.

Liars can not admit it even to theirselves in a lyng group.

People who deceive themselves can do it much more easily in a kindred crowd.

The fact that lies are shared by a group makes them seem acceptable to the unindividualized.

Hesse believed that when one ‘turned within’ one found a benevolent essence. Orient(al). Buddha.

Deeper and closer to the truth would be recognition of the inner struggle between good and evil. Occident(al). Zarathustra.

Who does not be “knowing” the world so as to deprive it of mystery?

“Faith in God” is a call to the necessity of meaning in life and world and suffering. And death.

Those who justify the unjustifiable… and how they justify justifying the unjustifiable to themselves. 

Just heard reports that Trump first suggested withdrawing from NATO because he felt mistreated by other NATO leaders at a gathering.
Again, at this point, the question is whether a sufficient number of Americans are fit* for democracy.

*Though micro targeting advertising campaigns may suggest that many must be made fit for democracy.