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Frustrated little people…
….whose degree of knowledge has them supporting and cheering, even financing, a man of the character – their man! – as Trump.
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Being on Mt Sinai

It was for me an important discovery some two decades ago to learn that already in what was later numerated as the sixth century the time of “revelation” was claimed to have passed, ended. Now I would, also with more years of bewusste Bildungsreisen, rather recognize that it is not what one may discover, find, experience upon Mount Sinai, but what one is thereon – what one inwardly brings to Mount Sinai.
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Sub specie academiae
What knowledge must not be rescued from academia? Virtually none.
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“created Equal”?
Depth is not subject to equality.
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Premortality
Perhaps the deepest discovery that might be made while alive, is what condition of vitality and mind one might have after death.
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The dangers of artificial intelligence
Humans rarely recognize the limits of their intelligence.
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Massive

Rome, April-May 2023 Mass tourism, mass experiences.
And one can imagine how deeply and comprehendingly the locations are experienced and understood by considering how much of history as a coherent whole the tourists themselves bear.
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“What ya been up to?”
Eine jahrzehntelang Bildungsreise durch Welt- und Geistesgeschichte, historische und heutigen Weltstadten, -kulturen und -gesellschaften.
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Seriously?
Not finding a serious intellectual environment around me here, also in a land inspired, thematized, and acting in the “pursuit of happiness” (TJ), I shall have to be my own seriousness. Though books, as I have known for decades, are seldom adequate conversationalists.
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Augustine today?

While it is physically, it is mentally impossible to stand in the same world as Augustine