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Maga mentality
Arguing with “true believer”, ardent “Maga” Trump supporters is like expecting they can change their minds. But they are in a state of mind.
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Mundanity
It is less that most live mundanely in the world than that mundanity lives in them
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Time and Place
We were less raised in a time in history than a part of town.
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Wer nimmer strebend…
…sich bemüht, den können wir erlöschen?
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November 12, 2024: “…a new era in global politics.”

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Extraordinary Moment St. Peter’s Basilica – May 9, 2023

St. Peter’s, May 9, 2023, 8:28 am -
“In ‘God’ We Trust”

The “God” of rhetorical socio-political piety.
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Their kingdoms are of this world

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2001: Lessons from Seven Years in Russia. 
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Nice, Polite Ignorants
Most people in America are essentially ignorant of history. I.e. they are, many, nice*.
*nice: from Latin nescius “ignorant, unaware,” literally “not-knowing,” from ne- “not” (from PIE root *ne- “not”) + stem of scire “to know”.