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Depth is not subject to equality.

Perhaps the deepest discovery that might be made while alive, is what condition of vitality and mind one might have after death.

Humans rarely recognize the limits of their intelligence.

Mass tourism, mass experiences.

And one can imagine how deeply and comprehendingly the locations are experienced and understood by considering how much of history as a coherent whole the tourists themselves bear.

Eine jahrzehntelang Bildungsreise durch Welt- und Geistesgeschichte, historische und heutigen Weltstadten, -kulturen und -gesellschaften.

Not finding a serious intellectual environment around me here, also in a land inspired, thematized, and acting in the “pursuit of happiness” (TJ), I shall have to be my own seriousness. Though books, as I have known for decades, are seldom adequate conversationalists.

While it is physically, it is mentally impossible to stand in the same world as Augustine

Either to live little conscious of the character of the world in which one resides, or to become conscious of its characteristics, – and thereby separate oneself, to exile oneself, from it.

Realistically, what can be understood about those who send their money to help a billionaire?

… are about the only serious conversations I have here in western North Carolina… though happily they are more frequent than when I lived in mid coastal sunny California.