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Religious politics
Are those the most oblivious and ardent in politics not also those most passive and convinced in religious beliefs?
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The power of stupidity
The number of Americans who have so little insight as to support the con man Trump allows one to be realistically depressed about American politics.
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Too far, too high

(From a documentary on Nietzsche) Observation and sense convince that venturing far or long “above the tree line” is fit for few.
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Article of Independence
In order to not depend on the unacceptable, one must accept it.
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Embibled
What can be expected of those who certainly and righteously view all the world, society, life through an unquestioned inherited Bible?
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Southern front porch philosophy: but don’t shoot a mockingbird
It is rather interesting to essentially confirm, by way of a 100 year old local historian of Monroe county Alabama, that the attitude, thought to not kill a mockingbird or other songbirds – from at least a century ago, at a place in the country where hunted game were eaten – was local to the county, and rather adapted by Harper Lee than created by her. Told to young Southern boys when they got their first gun.
Would seem to me to be an instance of Southern front porch philosophy.

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The Carpenters
The cotton candy of singing.*
*listening to Karen sing “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”. 🍭
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Our time’s Apocalypse
Ignorance of history allows believing ultimacy to passing moments of time.
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Proud ignoramuses?
Those who know deep down they are wrong, but assert themselves contrariwise nevertheless.
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The realities of the hippies

Golden Gate Park, 1967 The hippies were naturally as realistic about life, society, politics,… as most teenagers