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Many come to need, find – or create – replacements to their inherited religions to live by. The outer, social, inner patterns and beliefs of the inheritances are filled by the replacements.

Most live as if others are responsible for the world.

I have long gone too far to immediately accept normal immediate social evaluation’s and judgments.

Certainly, as I again understand of Goethe in his necessary journey to Rome (cf. eg Goethe and the Classical Ideal), Moscow allowed me the needed inner change in encounter which I myself barely knew I needed.

Whereas Goethe traveled from northern cold to Italian warm, from cloud to sun, I did the reverse: from sunny California to cold wintry Moscow.

Quantity of insights. Quality of insights.

Politicians of petty motivations and passions.

Having prepared for decades to face the authorities of academia, then to encounter, observe, question their conclusions, the validity of their “authority”, and reccognizing their all-too-human realities, to then see that true authority is the realities of the world, which are to be encountered, understood,…perhaps then accepted and embraced. The “higher authorities” are the facts of history, mankind, society, human being… the traditional “God” being too distant for direct inquiry, and academia committed to positionings, neutrality, careers.

Unworthy of attention, yet inescapable as political fact.

How much ignorance of human history, of centuries of social passions and forces, political compromises and humilities,… must they have to be so confident?

In reaction to breaking news about Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows…

Perhaps, in addition to the study of anti-intellectualism in American history, study could be made of anti-reality dupes… willful happy dupes in America’s political history as an abiding populace in American society.