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A Higher Challenge
“Kennst du den…?”
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Necessities?
Was ich seit 50 Jahren suche, scheint für andere Menschen nie eine Notwendigkeit gewesen zu sein.
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“Divinely-sent” Trump
The devoted Trump supporter said on TV that she believes Trump was “divinely sent…I really believe that”.
Now, according to a popular notion of “equality” of opinions, the woman is not an idiot.
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Democratically
The main problem with democracy is stupidity and ignorance.
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Passed history
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Contemporary American nihilists
Those whose resentment of the socio-political order is so strong that they – and they are of a group – imagine they want its destruction.
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(s)Mothered Augustine?

Basilica Sancti Augustini in Campo Martio. Body of Monica. Augustine, later sainted, was a mother’s boy; also in her beliefs he finally accepted. And while his thoughts and views and beliefs have become doctrine, also enforced, over centuries…why should such be accepted – in any case by me – now?
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Do’s and Don’ts of Knowledge
Believing you know what you don’t, is worse than admitting you don’t..
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Nature or History

I went into history because I wished to live deliberately…
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Funny or Fascist?

Opening scene in Barbie An intelligent, educated Russian (now a US citizen), long experienced in Americans, completely misunderstands the humor, satire, sense, meaning, intent… of the movie Barbie.
“Culture-specific”.
To consider: the psychology snd social psychology of the inner life and societal experience which is assumed (and necessary) for the humor and meaning of the/a movie.