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Most cannot live without Answers, also to Questions they have not asked.

How many millions of dupes in the USA still claim as facts the lies of Rudy Giuliani?

One commentator states that some 50,000,000 “low information voters” will vote their “pocketbook” in November 2024, i.e. the economy that week…. Not quality or character or “fascist” character of a candidate.

The peril of democracy is the demos.

Are all mass ideas and opinions not superficial, i.e. skim the surface of deeper and ambiguous realities.

Certainly it’s easier to be 🙂 that way.

How can one be both informed and live to some degree a contented life if one bears in mind for instances: Fukushima waters going into the Pacific, the terrible plight of women in Afghanistan (after the Americans abandoned it), the war in Ukraine, the atrocites on both sides in Gaza, and …

Ignorance of history keeps matters fresher.

In the deep, demanding direction of gnothi seauton – on and towards which I have for both self and sociopolitical knowledge for at least a couple decades worked – in an instant of study, I more clearly recognize the admixture of national, i.e. USA, “American” and regional, i.e. “Dixie”, “the South”, “Southerner”, loyalties and identities, and even nationalities of emotions, in which I have lived and moved most of my life – if for five decades mainly as a visitor physically.

Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach, in meiner Brust,…

Two nationalities, alas, dwell in my breast…

Due to AI.

When considering “mass society”, “the masses”, it is not only the ideas, attitudes, opinions,…that each of those who are part of the mass have that is of interest and use, but the mass opinions which might be said to have them, that are important to recognize and understand.

From John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 6 May 1816;
“Did you ever see a Portrait or a Statue of a great Man, without perceiving Strong Traits of Paine & Anxiety? These Furrows were all ploughed in the Countenance, by Grief. Our juvenile Oracle, Sir Edward Coke, thought that none were fit for Legislators and Magistrates, but “Sad Men”. And Who were these Sad Men? They were aged Men, who had been tossed and buffeted in the Vicissitudes of Life, forced upon profound Reflection by Grief and disappointments and taught to command their Passions & Prejudices.”
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-6595