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Whether one worries these questions often or never, many in “the West” are lost wandering wondering between the meanings on these two mountains*.
Moses Mt Sinai
Niezsche’s Sils Maria.

*And there was Petrarch on Ventoux, Thoreau on Ktaadn, et al.

“The sheer sledgehammer blow on the emotions seemed impossible for the Germans to resist; this was genius of a new and disturbing kind. The individual was lost, his will was drained, and the collective sense of superhuman strength was created out of a rabbid mindless tribalism.”

William Shirer, Nuremberg, 1934

Innerer Adelkeit kann in den USA nur massiv und zutiefst einsam sein.

Höflicher Umgang mit jenen, deren Gedanken, Gefühle, Überzeugungen, Meinungen … der Gruppe entsprechen.

The USA has really little if any deep idea of the inner man or woman. The dominant remnant and ongoing biblical imago dei – from which then one is either “saved”, or perhaps not – hardly competes with the popular idea of the physically- and worldly-satisfied, rich man.

Italy, Germany, USA

Dostoyevsky noted the deep need for inner freedom among his fellow prisoners in Omsk (1850-54). Such problems of inner freedom could hardly be said to exist in the United States of America at that time.

Sich bewusst zu machen, dass sich praktisch jeder in der Umgebung in einer Art intellektuellem Koma befindet.

Can a safe, undisturbed professor actually teach deeply?

Decades seeking answers most I met never realized were ever questioned.