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Certainly, as I again understand of Goethe in his necessary journey to Rome (cf. eg Goethe and the Classical Ideal), Moscow allowed me the needed inner change in encounter which I myself barely knew I needed.

Whereas Goethe traveled from northern cold to Italian warm, from cloud to sun, I did the reverse: from sunny California to cold wintry Moscow.

Quantity of insights. Quality of insights.

Politicians of petty motivations and passions.

Having prepared for decades to face the authorities of academia, then to encounter, observe, question their conclusions, the validity of their “authority”, and reccognizing their all-too-human realities, to then see that true authority is the realities of the world, which are to be encountered, understood,…perhaps then accepted and embraced. The “higher authorities” are the facts of history, mankind, society, human being… the traditional “God” being too distant for direct inquiry, and academia committed to positionings, neutrality, careers.

Unworthy of attention, yet inescapable as political fact.

How much ignorance of human history, of centuries of social passions and forces, political compromises and humilities,… must they have to be so confident?

In reaction to breaking news about Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows…

Perhaps, in addition to the study of anti-intellectualism in American history, study could be made of anti-reality dupes… willful happy dupes in America’s political history as an abiding populace in American society.

I predict that Rudy Giuliani will commit suicide when he is in sufficient desperation, and there is no way out. Probably drunk, then some deadly mixture.

Rather than the last years of his life being lived in a dead end, he will choose to end it with death.

Decades of experience and observation reveal that it would be improper, even impolite, for an upper-middle class Episcopalian to be openly actively worried about sin and damnation.

Science and most academic scholarship, for perhaps two centuries, and more, would place the facts of reality outside, even detached, from mankind. “Theology” – though it was named by Plato – at least has the depth to challenge man with the idea of a higher identity of meaning, and being: imago dei.

Both though are ever subjected to what for now approximately two centuries we gradually have described as “individuals” – be they of a natural aristos or buffoons.