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And what if in History for us collectively and individually the answer does not lie?

In my case, it was perhaps a century after Nietzsche’s madman cried ‘they had not heard of the death of God’.

Wie kann ich – nach mittlerweile mehr als fünf Jahrzehnten des „Quest“ in Studium, Reisen, Beobachtung, Erfahrung,… – ernsthafte, echte Gespräche mit jenen führen, die diesen Weg noch gar nicht begonnen haben? Mit Menschen, die nicht einmal ahnen, dass ein solches Leben überhaupt möglich ist?

Towards what ends would a post mortem dei Parzival strive?

The conscious intent to escape from the daily trivial and mundane assumptions of life and world 

Those too uneducated, illiterate, and ignorant to know it.  Though with social competence, and a smile.

The more history I learn, the more I consider that ignorance of it helped us smile with optimism in our early family life and years in the 1950s.

The revived interest in the writings and life of Melville in the 1920s did not help him very much in the 1890s.

“created equal” is a(n historical) period’s rhetorical ideal… not at all some realistic foundation for assessing, ordering, understanding and/or guiding humans in a real societal life.

“Original sin” would at least pretend to that – though that has its meaning in a fully other Cosmos.

Translation:

Nach vielen Jahren des Lebens, des Studiums, des Reisens, des Daseins als Expat… erkenne ich, dass meine einstige „Heimatstadt“ in ihrer Mentalität weder ernst noch realistisch genug ist, um Wut zu rechtfertigen.