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A storm as a Meaning temporarily shared.

Unawareness, indeed ignorance, that in earlier time in America, there was a shared overall meaning to world and daily life.

The divisions and individualization’s of Meaning to life and world.

William James, spoke of the “moral equivalent to war”… One could speak of the social, societal, mental,..

The bright sunny days of California seemed a mocking laughter at my focused, determined studies… Cloudy days, and the winters of Moscow, more kindred and consoling.

Studying and reflecting on history in Jerusalem…

Contemplating and enjoying nature at Walden pond.

There are those for whom the contents of books and the results of their studies are as a kind of outer dress they wear. Even if the outer dress may be on their own psyches.

To what degree should a gebildeter Mensch be involved and engaged with the ungebildet Viele?

Recognizing how use-less is most of what I have learned from five decades of study, travel, observations and living, how could I not but be irrelevant to that which predominantly passes for life, work and world?

It is really impossible to evaluate that which is new, without a sufficient knowledge of the olds.

I am confident that few I know will find these notes of use – if of perplexing interest.

How to argue about, or even converse amicably, Truth(s) and facts amid the multitude so pervasively ignorant and opinionated of “History”?

A true seeker-scholar can search for decades to find a single sentence

As I did moments ago.

No fireworks…

Alone.

But presumably a change in “aura”, if only in tint.