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Watching Ken Burns Civil War. Again now after 30 years. A quote that just was read:

“As a nation, we began by declaring that all men are created equal; we now practically declare it all men treated equal, except Neurose. Soon it will read all men are created equal, except negroes and foreigners and Catholics. When it comes to this, I should prefer immigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty; to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure and without base alloy of hypocrisy.” – Abraham Lincoln, in a private letter to his friend Joshua F Speed, August 24, 1855.

The “fear of the Lord” seems to have been somewhat effective in public order.

The loss of that fear led to…

While man may have on the earth no home, most doggedly spend their lives trying to find or build one.

Accepting with little if any question or challenge the world, life and ways of one’s upbringing is a kind of waking sleep.

Against “History” in much of any larger sense – which we unaware young were in a time and place of – the priorities, interests, necessities, goals,… of our daily lives and minds were so present and so bounded inside our time*, that what we were unsuccessfully presented as “history” was so foreign to our lives to much engage our persons or interests.

In other words, it was enough for us just to live and strive inside our time and place.

* post-war 1950-60s USA

The main ignorance of human history is the ignorance of human weakness.

The vast depths and widths of our ignorance of even recent History in our nascrnt, happy homes of 1950s’ USA.

The rather stupid, incorrect google answer is yes.