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  • Solitaried History

    The ignorance of, abstraction from and detachment from the History in which we all live by most of those I ever encounter allows not only no confrontation, but no affirmation of an inner world of realistic study. In other words, what is the purpose –and daily life inner experience – of an effort at bright light amidst those who unawares are content to live, “to be”, in a fog?

  • Groupies

    House Republican Ledership

    The emotions, positions and thoughts of persons defined by groups.

    Are they in fact not rather small persons, enlivened by their sides in impassioning arguments of opposing groups… Group emotions, group positions. And by themselves? Are they not in reality little people.

  • Retrospecting Holy Rome

    Each time from the real “hustle and bustle” of the streets of Rome I entered the right-hand door of a Roman church the Meaning inside their solemn silences became louder and more insistent: Nothing of the life outside those doors has any meaning – Jesus died for your sins is the Sole Fact of History.

  • Out of time

    Strange, but true: I must attempt to more fully extract myself from a five-decades old sense of urgency in relation to the passing of time in History, Politics, Society, and – recognizing my irrelevance – relate myself more to the unpredictable amount of time that my body will allow me yet to be.

  • sub specie academiae, again

    Probably more than 95% of the scores of scholars I have contacted over the years in regards to their studies have clearly thought about them professionally and personally sub specie academiae. Deeper than professional, academic career involvement is very rare. From my view revealing a common shared intellectuals sleep.

    I repeat myself, but I am con/afronted by the same facts regularly.

  • Constantine the Great, et al

    The Battle of Milvian Bridge, Raphael Rooms, Vatican

    How deep inside the collective sleep of our ongong Biography of History was it that it took me decades to climb out to Constantine the Great (and eventually established Christian history.).

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  • modi operandi

    “quiet desperation” (HDT’)

    “active distraction” (SLL)

  • The American dream

    The group dream state in which a well-furnished suburban home is the successful end of history.

    The unconscious, metaphysical assumptions, even the “theology”, in which most “live, move, and have their being”. Quite apart from whatever their inherited articulable “beliefs” are.

  • Bildung a la Burckhardt

    “In an age of crisis and revolution, individuals cannot escape the impending sense of powerlessness and alienation through recourse to materialism, egotism, or violence; rather they must seek the solution within themselves and within the spiritual continuum of the past that unites all humankind. Bildung consequently provided Burckhardt with the necessary bridge between his day-to-day existence and his ascetic and aesthetic impulses. The very centrality of the goal of holistic self-realization to Bildung reveals the extent to which it was conceived as an essentially ascetic phenomenon. The pursuit of inner knowledge and self-exists cultivation as a spiritual calling, as a means of personal salvation in a time of crisis. Bildung consequently represents ascetic self-mastery and self-possession, the requirement of true culture and education. Devotion to this ideal empowers and liberates the subject. An exercise in the power of mind over body, it represents a self-imposed dedication to the spirit and the control of corporeal temptation. In an age in which both the mind and the body were being increasingly managed by a society that was refining its controls over the subject, Bildung emerged as the only source of true individual freedom.” — Jacob Burckhardt and the Crisis of Modernity, John Hinde, p. 135-136.

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  • Mental states

    The main problem with the “political positions” of people is that in reality they are a revealing of their mentalities.