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Group consciousness…
and group unconsciousness…
…the latter likely more influential.
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Psyche, not History
Most do not live in History, they live in a condition of psyche. Social psyche.
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It is something – though perhaps it is late in life to realize it should not be surprising – to recognize that I could see Russians as well as Goethe those in Italy.

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M A G A ?
Mentally Adolescent Group Attitudes
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Social Psychography
Conscious living requiring deep insight into the social psychography of one’s surrounding world and life. 
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It seems possible this afternoon, though it is not yet properly summer, that I may at least have conversation with a storm. 
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For the birds.
Goethe. Vicenza, 19 Sept. [1786]
Helps reconcile me to most of my “hometown” friends, as well as observations in every state in my 89-day trip across the USA and back.
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Deep inside America?
Depth of mind, soul, character, spirit… are in the realities unAmerican.
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Also AI
Artificial Idiocy
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So, a “Steppenwolf” must needs come to a rejection of not only the group-shared assumptions of an adequate and pleasant day, but the mental inheritance of the sense of Time, drozy meanings of Life in Time, and Nature as a mere decorative location.
… and an acceptance of inescapable, deep aloneliness.
All necessitating the assertions of a solitary entelechy. And the solitary assertions of an eentelechy.
And how can this not but be a kind of wounded state of life…daily life. Even – perhaps, especially – alone for hours during nights. Enduring vigils no other one knows.
But at least some times dark storms come.