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Peter Aria, Bach’s Matthew Passion
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America as the “city on the hill”?
Under Trump America as the cesspool in a seamp.
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An Unknown Lighthouse
Einen ignorierten Leuchtturm zu bauen – und zu sein.
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Unspeaking Nature

Ich erwarte keineswegs, dass die Natur zu mir spricht – selbst inmitten ihrer schönsten Landschaften. Doch ich weiß inzwischen die Vorzüge ihrer stillen Nähe besser zu schätzen.
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(Im)Mediate News
It took approximately three weeks for news of the November 1, 1755 Lisbon earthquake to reach Paris and London. About four weeks before it reached the six-year-old Goethe in Frankfurt-am-Main to affect his attitude toward God.
24 hour news coverage started in Atlanta, Georgia, USA in June 1980.
Now our personal, emotional, intellectual lives are influenced almost immediately, often in minutes, if not seconds, when there are major events in the world.
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More than “Darwinian”
However it may really in evolution have been, something more is true that human beings, individually and collectively, need a story to live with and by.
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Welt- und Selbsterkenntnis
Welterkenntnis
Selbsterkenntnis
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Group Self-Knowledge
Man is a herd creature.
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Mundania
Is the naming of an unconscious view(ing) of the World and Life in which most are.
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Group- vs Self-education
Gemeinbildung vs Selbstbildung

Joseph Karl Stieler, 1828