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One actual fact about American democracy? Iowa Republicans are either too stupid to recognize that a former president attemptseda coup, or are willing to accept or refuse ignore the fact.

Trump voters have shamed us in the eyes of the world.

Two differing usable histories:

A stream of Jungians believe that “soul” was omitted at the then Chirch Council from the tripartite: body, soul, spirit. And so they have a history and solution in their psychology of soul.

The anthroposophists following Steiner – and actually historically more accurate – have a history in which the spirit was understood as only part of the soul, not independent, leaving only body and soul. And they have their history and solution in spirit.

Those who do not even have books as decor.

Those who have never read a serious book, but know it barely if at all.

They walk by a collection of books without looking.

Those whose “thoughts, words, and deeds” are mainly mutual with the group and society in which they were raised, to which they belong, in which they live, differ from those who – for whatever causes and reasons – have those of their own singular life.

While most humans, men and women, find and/or create a sense of life and its (and their) meaning from the ideas and events of history passed, “History” itself seems secondarily, if not tertiarily, a means to understanding human being themselves. It is more true and realistic – also, perhaps especially, considering how unconscious and purely plain ignorant and unaware most are, and live, of even their own people’s history – to approach the human being, individually and collectively, in relation to state of mind, a state of human being. In other words, more (social) psychology than history; and with that more state of being than state of mind. Perhaps best: mind in and of being.

Studying in sufficient depth and insights the lives and minds of other “times and climes” allows one – potentially – to recognize what are the news and olds, the real, the repetitive, the facades, the actual in life stories of the present, and past.

Reading and reviewing how creatively adaptive “Southerners” were in conceiving, explaining and justifying themselves and their states’ and Confederacy secessions also sub specie dei…

…I am reminded of the useful truthfulness of an idea and its name which took me a few of decades of study in history, and a couple of decades of thinking, to conceive. Here from an early record of it:

http://steppenwolfmoscow1.blogspot.com/2012/03/anthrography.html

No matter howsoever much Mankind is bound to the Earth, he seems also unavoidably skybound.

“Plantation on a rise”.