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Not even nothing?
And if there is no, and has never been a, Solution, but only the Ordeal, the Test, Trial,… individual and collective?
And if there is not even that? Can such a question, reflection, be fully senselessly, meaninglessly  asked? 
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Earthly Dawns on Mount Sinai

Dawn on Mount Sinai, 2002 And if there were never any other than a common sunrise on Mount Sinai?
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Intro-retrospection
Während meine vielleicht tiefsten „persönlichen“ und emotionalen Beziehungen immer noch die zu Freunden und Familie in meiner „Heimatstadt“ sind – wo ich mich 5/7 meines Lebens nicht „zu Hause“ gefühlt habe – ist es für mich sinnlos, meine eigenen persönlichen, intellektuellen Positionen in Bezug zu ihrem im Wesentlichen gedankenlosen, traditionellen Leben zu setzen. Und dann waren da noch die “happy, smiling” Spiritualisten in Kalifornien, vor denen ich schließlich Anfang der 90er Jahre nach Russland floh,… oder zu den schließlich milden, den Westen kopierenden Seelen Moskaus,… oder dann zu den sub specie academiae Intellektuellen von Harvard…
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Not “where”, but within what…
Less essential than where one resides is amid what social psyche.
Though most live within the social psyche aware dominantly of where. 
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Gnothi seauton
Do not most rather have interdependent group psyche?
Though that too is a kind of self knowledge.
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Manichaenism for Dupes
“Populism” seems to be essentially an externalized Manichaenism for duped groups. Including those group-righteously willing to kill.
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Small Acts, great Wakes
Small acts with great wakes in History.

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The Failure of US AG Merrick Garland
The weak personality of Garland led to a late prosecution of Trump.


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Beyond the American Creed and Dream
Surpassing Jefferson’s “American Creed” in belief, history and insights, and rejecting the “American Dream” named by James Truslow Adams,… seeking rather deeper and more meaningful life and world insights and goals by and in which to live.
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Social Solitude
Most who know me don’t.