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“Man” (mens-): the creature which imagines its eternities are not passing.

No man is an individual entire of itself; every man is a piece of the mass, a part of the main;…

Absicht: Egal wie ignoriert und unbekannt ich bin, ich werde (weiter m)ein ernstes Leben führen.

15 November 1813, Adams to Jefferson: “You very justly indulge a little merriment upon this Solemn Subject of Aristocracy. I often laugh at it too, for there is nothing in this laughable world more ridiculous than the management of it by almost all the nations of the World Earth. But while We Smile, Mankind have reason to Say to Us, as the froggs Said to the Boys, What is Sport to you, is Wounds and death to Us. When I consider the weakness, the folly, the Pride, the Vanity, the Selfishness, the Artifice, the low craft and mean Cunning the want of Principle, the Avarice the unbounded Ambition, the unfeeling Cruelty of a majority of those (in all Nations) who are allowed an Aristocratical influence; and on the other hand, the Stupidity with which the more numerous multitude, not only become their Dupes, but even love to be taken in by their Tricks: I feel a Stronger disposition to weep at their destiny, than to laugh at their Folly.”

What great traumas – and realities of life and world– of history are ignorable because unknown in the blithestyle of the American “middle class”?

In a time of life crisis, at a moment of life choice, Billy Graham chose to avoid — to ignore — centuries of intellect and thought, and to turn all of the substance of human history into a moment of religious repentance. And millions worldwide followed.

Except that honesty is not required.

Sometimes one must study facts far distant miles of years away, in order to understand where one stands.

Exiting,… consciously extracting one’s self from the unconscious traditions of thought and belief, in which most will temain unawares asleep, adreaming, leaves one standing rather solitarily on a hill. As if by one’s own effort of mind, the remaining surrounding fog, mist and clouds are dispelled.

And such inner acts are fully hidden from those below the clouds in the valleys.

It is probably impossible to be a knowledgeable – certainly if one is educated – serious thinker, and not have gone through at least a bath of Nietzsche..