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Began studying Oppenheimer about four decades ago. Berkeley. Visited Trinity. John Donne and the deeper roots of “Trinity” learned in the home of Mabel Potter (just northeast of UCB), her late husband having been a specialist in John Donne and his sermons.

The title “to end all wars” and key moments in the documentary, show the accidents, limits, even trivialities of human aspects of enormous import snd impact in history.

http://agnothiseauton.blogspot.com/2013/04/atomic-apes.html

However full of details and complexities history was, men and women simplify it.

In decades of studying the “authorities” of established and empowered Answers to Questions which I have now also long pursued, gradually I turn to my own authority.

Luther’s sola fides; Goethe’s immer Streben.

Luther’s Fallen Adam; Goethe’s Entelechy.

Quite probably the deepest characteristic as to whether some one is a dependent or independent person, mainly of the mass or mainly of their self, is whether when they think, speak or act, they do so dependent on society, the “mass”, or on their own self.

How can I find someone who has compared the differences in atmospheres – or the psychologies of their societies? –in the old churches of Paris vis-à-vis the churches of Rome?

To read a description written in 1872 of essentially all of the social, political, economic dreams and ideals, we youth held in 1972…

Getting, keeping, and enjoying a successful “American Dream”, the comfortable upper middle-class lifestyle, presumes, even seems to require, an ignorance, avoidance, and denial of a deeper mind-style, knowledge, insights,… of even one’s own beliefs.

Reading an insightful survey published when I was seven on religion and scepticism, revealing clearly how most of what I was then raised to believe had long before been undermined, some patts a century before. But like the proclamations in the market by Nietzsche’s “madman”, this news has still yet not been heard..