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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. 

How much of “theology” consists of saving God, for us, from nonexistence.

While serious highofficials talk, argue, pass resolutions… thousands die.

The dominant atmosphere of fundamentally hopeless Sin, requiring deadly sacrifice – and not by Man but by the “Son of God” – which pervades many Catholic churches in Rome, does it not stultify, sicken the human soul? The world and Mankind’s Story being a kind of Malaise.

(Arden, North Carolina)

The collective view of “mankind” tends to be more “optimistic” than even recent history supports. I.e. it is unrealistic.

Die Ungenügendheit des Lebens zu erkennen ist eine reife Einsicht… für ein Wesen, von dem die Weisen sagten, es habe auf der Erde keine Heimat.

AI as a more realistic “God” replacement is certainly coming soon. Just “an aid”, of course.