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Unworthy of worry
So many prominent political personalities, who are in themselves unworthy of attention.
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Mirrors in history?
To actually better understand one’s time by studying history, one must first really be willing and wanting to understand one’s time.
Rarely to my sight do many want to live so. In fact, few seem to realize such as possible.
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“Spiritual sleep”
From some 23 years ago. Moscow.
http://www.americanreflections.net/essays/man_the_troubled_creature_en.html
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Snoozing in time
Most seem asleep, some adream, few awake.
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College degree?
And then there are those many I know who never subsequently realized to what degree they didn’t learn in college.
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carpe diem?
carpe aeternitates
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un/shared M/meaning
To privately bear an unshared Meaning in daily life.
“the moral equivalent to war” (W. James)
the amoral equivalent to war?
the immoral equivalent to war?
the non-moral equivalent to war?
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The deepest human failure
Externalized Manichaeanism, the outer jihad, a Führer
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An historic no from Goethe
Was Goethe so solidly constituted that he never later regretted saying no to Christian August, Prince of Waldeck, at his invitation to jouney to Greece, and beyond?to Greece, Dalmatia, and beyond?

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Final Exams
So few would admirably pass an intellectual final exam, that it would seem to be inhumane, by God, for that to be the criterion of judgment.