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Actual photographs and images from “mass shootings” should be show to all American people without filtering. That would change the gun laws in America.

The power of the gun lobby in America is one terrible example of the sickness of profits over people.

Another shooting at a grade school this morning. The misapplication of the “right to bear arms”.

What a slave holding a crown reminded conquerors in triumphs in Rome,… what popes in ceremony were reminded by the burning of flax,… what Thomas a Kempis in his Imitation warned to scholars: sic transit gloria mundi... these realities I was thrust into, without ideas, in the plane crash March 27, 1965.

And then later an innocent Christian unintentionally cast me towards the problems of meaning, suffering and theodicy by imagining to console by speaking of the Heavenly Father’s meaning to the deaths…

Preparing for Rome…reading on Luther and Rome, I learned an obvious fact I had misunderstood all my life. “The die is cast” I had first and always understood to mean a material was set into a pattern, “cast”. But no, looking up iacta alea est I learn it means the dice are thrown! Hail, Caesar!

A free and open public social psychology experiment in which believers, adherents and supporters of an individual clearly unfit for his position, but for which they believe(d) and support(ed) him, can be viewed and studied.

For Republicans,… if it is against the Democrats, it is true.

The Democrats are not wrong, they are evil — consciously and malevolently wanting to bring down the USA.

So how are politics to be taken seriously?

Zoroaster, Augustine, Gibbon,… comparative overviews of “universal history” can allow peaks of scenaric insight – not forgetting the limits of the human being.

There is no final social idea(l) of polity which fully can (re)solve the realities of individual and social human nature.

And much of human social history occurs in the confrontations of these contradictory realities.

Of those who for years, from youth on, were assumed to be “authorities”, the more closely they are known, the more they become mere biographies.

It is difficult if not impossible to evaluate and understand one’s time when knowing so little of any other.

A popular state of being.