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Speaker Johnson and the Little Man Theory of History

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Know thyself?
Ignore thyself.
Deceive thyself.
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Geography < Psychography, Sociography
For the deeper elements of men and women, it is arguably less geography than the psychography, the sociography in which one lives that is the most influential.
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Those ignorant of history…
are condemned to psychologizing.
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The Little Woman Theory of History

The real life trivialities – here the little woman theory of history – of humans in politics in History.
A woman with the mentality of a country hick with so much power…
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Scenic Nature
Do we not view the nature immediately around us mostly as mere scenery to our activities and lives?

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Dante and Politics
One can only say that there is to Dante a profound hopelessness to society’s politics, considering how experience brought him to view it.

And as I came to see America from life as an expat in Moscow:

Wherein life in America is seen and considered sub specie dei.
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The Ordinary Banality of Evil

Eichmann in court Jerusalem, 1961 The self-conscious intellectual Hannah Arendt saw Eichmann as “banal” therefore
the “banality of evil”. But from a position of less superiority, a synonym would be ordinary.
Evil is evil – as most understand it. Naming it “banal” seemed to make it worse. But is recognizing the scope of the potential evil of a common, ordinary man better?
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Fools unawares

Ohio Trump Rally Those too foolish to know it.
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The (Ir)Relevant Dante?
Question: Why would those untroubled – probably incognizantly – of a serious individualized view of life and world be troubled to interest themselves in Dante’s cosmos? Or his life?