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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..

Feuerbach: “theology is anthropology”.

Lapeyrouse: “theology is autobiography.”

One of the deeper facts of “mass” men and women, is their massive ignorance of what has come before them in time.

Perhaps the main cause why there is so little depth of insight into the ways that History pervades our lives and minds and societies and time, is that there are few historians of such depth.

In my observations, the dominance of the achievement and successful enjoyment of a “middle-class way of life”, its lifestyle, and its dominance over any sense living in and knowledge of History, is less the influence of the physical accoutrements, than an unconsciousness of living in them.

I was raised inside a, however social, “bubble” of belief and church. A kind of regional historic anachronism.

August in Russia… the month of major changes.