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Beneath the overt social control of the media and of society in Russia is fear.

Again.

“A civilisation may be wrecked without any spectacular crimes or criminals but by constant petty breaches of faith and minor complicities on the part of men generally considered
very nice people.” — Herbert Butterfield, 1949, Christianity and History.

Aside from the “minor fact” that we baby boomers were hardly presented with some sort of coherent world-, life-, or history view.

History began at our prosperous life in the 1950s*.

*And we in our lives hardly associated the calendar year(s) with the birth of one who was crucified.

Many – probably most – are unaware and incognizant of their own assumptions as to the nature of world and life…even in their own daily lives.

If not asleep, adream. Dreamwalkers. Dreamlivers.

The in-fact abstracted, idealistic and hopeful ideas, systems, beliefs, notions,… of how to improve, if not solve, the human condition, by those who know so little of its history is, though they are adults, childish.

If the moon is not Romanticized, it can remind, literally, of the meta-physics in which our earth life is.

Which bears more: the idea or the stone.

Goethe’s Faust v Augustine’s pilgrim.

Goethe:

“Wer immer strebend sich bemüht, den können wir erlösen.” (11936 f.)

Augustine:

Wer nimmer strebend sich bemüht, den können wir erlösen.

Contrasting beliefs in human nature and spirit.

Fighting off a humdrum day, uninterestingly overcast, with Augustine, his two cities and the Fall of Rome.

Inside, obscured by so much broad in human – oft all-too-human – society, daily life, politics, human dreaminess and strivings, survival and successes,…in core, really often ignored and neglected, stands the belief, the idea, the notion of life and world sub species dei.