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Artificial Idiocy

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.

JvG’s relation to Nature, as mine to History.

The inherited assumption that a day, the inner day,, should somehow of itself be acceptable, even pleasant, is one this Steppenwolf need consciously surpass.

*nice – from ne- “not” (from PIE root *ne- “not”) + stem of scire “to know” (see science).

Those millions in America still not perceiving his unfitness for office confirm their unfitness for democracy.

From a higher perspective – if one may imagine being able so to think – it was not what Goethe did all along his life’s way, than what he had become by, at and after his end.

Entelechy.

Deep self-, social- and world-insights make possible an escape from the conditions in which most unreflectingly reside.

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Friday asks Robinson… is God let the devil tempt man, why he get mad?

By the time the President of the United States presented false “facts” in the Oval Office to his Cabinet members and the world, Trump had no remaining “character” to lose. Whereas those around him, agreeing and obeying, must give up whatever remaining they have of theirs.