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Considering growing to recognize sic transit gloria – and foolishness, genius, striving, indifference, politics!, nobility, ignobility, intelligentsia, mediocrity, translatio imperii et studii,…– mundi as the living reality, I myself can only hope to being writing a biography in the sky.

In a word: Bildungserlebnisexam

HDT sought sanity from society and “politics” in Nature, I in History.

Just read a description in Stefan Zweig’s The World of Yesterday (1942), in which he describes the social psychology he experienced and observed around him in late summer 1914. It is the same emotional, irrational psychology I observed in 2014 in Moscow regarding Ukraine, and have observed the past years in the US in regards to the most unfit President in US history.

All the many Russians who are trying to ignore the war in Ukraine with their once-fellow Slavs, or who are allowing themselves to be duped by state propaganda, are much the same as those Germans in the 30s and 40s who did not want to know what their government was doing to the Jews.

One aspect of why disinterest and ignorance in and of history limits personal and social growth is because studying the history of an other time and people is little less than seeing your self and your society in a mirror – be that mirror cracked, with askew pieces and missing pieces, smudges…. it still would allow self- and social-knowledge.

But then… One was wish to wake up.

“Streams of consciousness” (James)… or perhaps streams of society in which people are more or less conscious of themselves.

It seems less that churches’ sermons and services are answers to more than less conscious, actual, experienced questions of life, beng and meaning, than that they are just the “relgious” part of the dreamy, unconscious, shared inherited life- and mind-style.

How many move around the main elements of human history with too much levity.

A storm as a Meaning temporarily shared.

Unawareness, indeed ignorance, that in earlier time in America, there was a shared overall meaning to world and daily life.

The divisions and individualization’s of Meaning to life and world.

William James, spoke of the “moral equivalent to war”… One could speak of the social, societal, mental,..

The bright sunny days of California seemed a mocking laughter at my focused, determined studies… Cloudy days, and the winters of Moscow, more kindred and consoling.