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Perhaps the main cause why there is so little depth of insight into the ways that History pervades our lives and minds and societies and time, is that there are few historians of such depth.

In my observations, the dominance of the achievement and successful enjoyment of a “middle-class way of life”, its lifestyle, and its dominance over any sense living in and knowledge of History, is less the influence of the physical accoutrements, than an unconsciousness of living in them.

I was raised inside a, however social, “bubble” of belief and church. A kind of regional historic anachronism.

August in Russia… the month of major changes.

A perhaps completely unique death occured in the submersible by the Titanic when the bodies were essentially liquefied in 2 µs. One moment they were conscious, and before the next moment they w

Probably few raised in a “democracy” – even if only as ideal such – get beyond it to recognize that “the nature of man” is the greater concept, the greater reality, in which “democracy”, and in fact other social orders and states, are “subsets”.

Living and thinking by “clichés” is one degree of unawareness, but being unaware, and also being aware, of living by clichés is an other.

Probably 95% of my life since I began leaving “youth” behind was, and is, in reality senseless if the deeper accounts of self knowledge in the entelechy, the scintilla, the Zoroastrian daena, are not in some reality true, actual.

Recognizing so belatedly that most do not want, and perhaps are not able, to go “above the tree line” of common experiences, ideas, opinions, emotions, social ways.

Each day I wake up to find those around me still asleep.

How to study the unconscious patterns by which most around live. Intellectual, emotional, social.