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Mass ahistoria
Most humans, be they “leaders” or the lead, are so engulfed in their present time, that they do not learn the lessons from history, during which humans were engulfed in their present times.
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And eye for an eye?
Israel-Hamas War: Revenge is two-hundred eyes for an eye..
The one and only solution there was, is, and will be the “two-state solution”.

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“Heaven on earth”?”
There is here an inherited assumption that life on earth is the main scene of meaning.
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Goddamned?
There are those in history who imagine they are the Godblessed, and those they imagine are the Goddamned.
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“It’s their fault”
No matter what the Israelis do, it will have been the responsibility and guilt of the original attackers of Hamas.
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Revelations into History

And then in moments…years of study and thought, travels and observations, join with the news of the day to bring an insight into History, and Christian theology, and the other religious views of Time.
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The Mundane Right of Senators?

and the low motivations of those in high office.
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The moralities of hypocrisies
Observing the two sides in the war now in Israel/Gaza, and the attempt to assume a moral superiority for immoral acts… is a lesson in the truths and realities of mass social moralities.
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“How can this happen in 2023?”
Those who say: “How can this happen in 19..?”, “…in the 20th century?”,… “…in the 21st century?!”,… “How can this happen in 2023?” show how ignorant, naïve and unaware of history and mankind they are.
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After JvG
It has taken me decades of exploration and searching in a “wilderness” named Goethe to finally find my way to solid barren peaks… above the trees as it were…from which to see his view around. It was, as it happened, reading in a free 1972 MA Thesis “Goethe and the Classical Ideal”… The experience was so essential that it is taking me days before I can attend at all again to anything else.
This perhaps would not have happened without my trip to Italy, to Sicily; but it did.

April 20, 2023. Casa di Goethe, Rome 
Palermo. Evening. May 29, 2023.