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Massively popular shallow self-knowledge, leads to most of such social “understandings” of life, society, politics, world.

Essentially, most people are not serious. And in all of their “thoughts, words, deeds”, they should be so understood, and expected.

A history of when, where and how broke up a shared understanding of Life and World, to when many each are even unawares that there ever was such a shared world, and many such each now tend to being an individual, indeed idiosyncratic “understanding” of life and world.

Most cannot live without Answers, also to Questions they have not asked.

How many millions of dupes in the USA still claim as facts the lies of Rudy Giuliani?

One commentator states that some 50,000,000 “low information voters” will vote their “pocketbook” in November 2024, i.e. the economy that week…. Not quality or character or “fascist” character of a candidate.

The peril of democracy is the demos.

Are all mass ideas and opinions not superficial, i.e. skim the surface of deeper and ambiguous realities.

Certainly it’s easier to be 🙂 that way.

How can one be both informed and live to some degree a contented life if one bears in mind for instances: Fukushima waters going into the Pacific, the terrible plight of women in Afghanistan (after the Americans abandoned it), the war in Ukraine, the atrocites on both sides in Gaza, and …

Ignorance of history keeps matters fresher.