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Surrounded by those borne by unawares History, in literature trivial, of Philosophy ignorant, “their” Religion’s beliefs naïve and passive… generally asleep, adream… Is it not ‘as if Greek amid barbarians’?

But for the absence of an extra sense, the stars might not seem so distant, and useless.

The strong gusting wind is more real than many people I know.

In Search of the American Dream, Selected Essays, Stephen Lapeyrouse (essays translated into Russian). 2015

Towards the Spiritual Convergence of America and Russia: American Individuality and Russian Community and the Potent Alchemy of National Characteristics, 1991

So politisch unkorrekt das auch sein mag, man kann einen Trump-Wähler oft schon am Gesicht erkennen.

Consciousness and evaluation of one’s pre-mortem “thoughts, words, and deeds” before inevitable “mortality” becomes physical fact, can be in individuals, and in individuals’ social groups and individuals’ larger nationalities.

The central non-existential standard of knowledge in society and academia.

While lNietzsche’s Christianity was underminded by Lange’s materialism, et al, many of the American baby boomers “Christianity” was underminded by esotericisms and Eastern beliefs.

Alabama’s version of the 1770s German song (in English) “wine, women and song”. It was from inwardly watching the weekly football-season’s inebriated, boring reality of these that I walked away from the fraternity house, Deke, one suppertime in late September 1971.

Never regretted.