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People ask sometimes if an other “believes in God”, as if it were a question of whether one belongs to a pleasant club or not. Or as if one’s carriage or car had an agreeable and warming light inside. Or as if one had help or not in dealing with life.

How much Trump reveals of the demos in the American polity.

Butterfield words in 1949 are like a mirror to the world and life in which I was raised, but which I could not quite see.

Amongst which: Morality as the Meaning in Time, and the distanced inhumane Tragedies of most History.

Many people are so swamped by their opinions that they cannot recognize there are facts and truths.

Self knowledge

Social-cultural knowledge

National-political knowledge

Place knowledge

Time knowledge

Moment-in-history knowledge

Beneath the overt social control of the media and of society in Russia is fear.

Again.

“A civilisation may be wrecked without any spectacular crimes or criminals but by constant petty breaches of faith and minor complicities on the part of men generally considered
very nice people.” — Herbert Butterfield, 1949, Christianity and History.

Aside from the “minor fact” that we baby boomers were hardly presented with some sort of coherent world-, life-, or history view.

History began at our prosperous life in the 1950s*.

*And we in our lives hardly associated the calendar year(s) with the birth of one who was crucified.

Many – probably most – are unaware and incognizant of their own assumptions as to the nature of world and life…even in their own daily lives.

If not asleep, adream. Dreamwalkers. Dreamlivers.