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Those whose resentment of the socio-political order is so strong that they – and they are of a group – imagine they want its destruction.

Augustine, later sainted, was a mother’s boy; also in her beliefs he finally accepted. And while his thoughts and views and beliefs have become doctrine, also enforced, over centuries…why should such be accepted – in any case by me – now?

Believing you know what you don’t, is worse than admitting you don’t..

I went into history because I wished to live deliberately…

An intelligent, educated Russian (now a US citizen), long experienced in Americans, completely misunderstands the humor, satire, sense, meaning, intent… of the movie Barbie.

“Culture-specific”.

To consider: the psychology snd social psychology of the inner life and societal experience which is assumed (and necessary) for the humor and meaning of the/a movie.

Astonishingly relevant for the social self-knowledge of those of and in “polite society”, and I might add, especially for “Southern gentlemen”.

The realities of the problems of “politics” in America are not that of political positions; they are that of human attitudes, emotions mentality. And as Nietzsche is translated as having said they are “all too human”.

The world, if it has any meaning more than fact, does not actively present it.

Perhaps mercifully, most men and women, in also having inherited one or another, seem rarely to notice.

If over years you correct yourself from a foolish life, however respected that may seem to most, have you started to be smart and intelligent?

What did you do with your self before you died?