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The perennial multisocietal desire of mankind for sleep.

A rare direct personal confrontation of powers in the US government:

And these individual justices are much less than their power.

https://www.google.com/gasearch?q=biden%20speaking%20to%20us%20supreme%20court%20justices&tbm=vid&source=sh/x/gs/m2/5

It has been a long journey from the polite, self-assured gentlemanly ignorance in (and to) which I was (to be) raised.

Edifices would give the impression they are more than the ideas behind them.

There are some conclusions you can only make, some insights you may only gain, after a few decades of life in the world.

Of course one cannot view and much enjoy a movie without (forgetting) all the camera and crew which create the movie.

Similar to social conditions in Nazi Germany, or also Soviet Russia, those I know of Putin’s Russia who have not gone into external exile, tend to being in internal.

Here in the USA the “inner exile” of a Steppenwolf or Steppenshewolf, is not from social oppression or political danger, but from indifference, disinterest.

Such is a quite different reality – but a reality for all that.

… sich bemüht, soll etwas vollbringen können.

The familial and social group life and mind in which I and my friends were, as it is sometimes said, “brought up” provided us with no substantive content or context to understand history, it’s ideas, events, literature,… or much well of anything else outside the upper middle-class life in which we were raised.