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Boxed Frantic Happiness

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The History of the hippies

SF Golden Gate Park, “Summer of Love”, 1967 What knowledge of history did hippies have to imagine societal states and goals than the suburbs and postwar boom in which they were happily raised?
Those even only 22 years old then (in ’67) had been born at the end of a terrible and murderous Second World War of which they knew probably nothing.
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⛈️ and the Reformation

After Franklin, must not Luther’s storm- and lightning-inspired frightened prayerful oath to become a monk, did he survive, be completely reviewed.
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“The end is nigh!”

Popular ignorance of even recent history supports common misjudgments of beginnings and endings, great and small events in time.
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Another mad child scientist

Altman clearly has as much depth of knowledge of humanity in history as Zuckerberg in his naïve beginning of Facebook.
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Two former states
Watching a film on life in 1980s East Germany, reminds me that I visited two countries which no longer exist: GDR and USSR. Such also are lessons from history.
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Variations of Saving
As, however unconsciously, “understandings”, beliefs, views of Life and World changed over time, the world needed being saved in different ways.
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Orientation becomes cosmolization

Heinrich Buntings, world map 1581 As the Meaning and Order to Life, Time and World were once oriented to Jerusalem, with the loss of that holy “orientation” some could look to the Cosmos for Meaning and Sense.
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Philalethist
I am more a philalethist than a philosopher.
Or perhaps the former in order to come gradually to being the latter.
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Nietzsche’s Gertrude?
“All that lives must die,. Passing through nature to… nothingness.
O: “All that lives must die,. Passing through nature to eternity” eternally