incar-nation

we are as incarnationed as incarnated

and all too often therein also incarcerated in our limitations...

escaping, if ever, by education as one route to freeing

quiet desperation?

aggressive desperation?

Press and State

as "the Church" can be too friendly with the State,
so can the Press
though one should speak for eternity
and the other for the times

autonomously

autophilia -- love of one's self
autophilia -- fear of one's self
autology -- knowledge of one's self
autosophy -- wisdom of one's self

God help us?

even if God and all his angels are
we humans are little- or nonetheless in a big, seemingly terrible, mess

lectures at Harvard sub specie scientiae, sub specie academiae

(another) lecture* at Harvard by a visiting professor merely intellectually occupied
with little discernible personal involvement

*purely for the mind. organized. clear. referenced. scientific. near lifeless.
overly well-mannered. compromising.
a lecture that offers/changes a few ideas, at most
in the tradition of petty erudition. safe statements of a boy-man

contact high?

and contact low

Nietzsche and the tunnel

The darkness at the end of the tunnel

CNNical

CNN provides the gossip most prefer to real news

"alll too human"?

all too (in)human

mind mines

books are mines for minds

a free person?

how little of a personality is not carried by outer and inner traditions, and current social patterns and pressures?

justification of life to man

who lives without some sort of theodicy?
biodicy?

Nietzsche by Boston

what Nietzsche said when his madman proclaimed the "death of God"
was that man is a fool

unmirrored history

history is the great mirror of humanity
mostly covered by a dust cloth

1 problem with "anthroposophists"...

is that they live, think and have their being in a kind of mythic psyche
(and most will not eg recognize the allusive word use source)

Havard gawkers

most tourists to Havard Yard could clearly not matriculate

Inside the Harvard Divinity School (19th century) Chapel

Emerson faced Calvinist "Christianity"
not "Alexandrian".
Might his 1838 "Divinity School Address"  been other wise had he?

Meaning in life?

haven't found him!
or it

or her
😉

talking with an intelligent "madman"

does there seem to be a consistent psychography, pneumography, ontography?

the book's author

how much can you tell of an author by his/her book?

"survival of the...

middest"?

civil religion

Americanity

conscience?

for how long and many is society stronger than conscience

the ordeal of the pursuit of happiness?

letting go, from experience, of the dream of companioned happiness
a recurrent nightmare?

civitas dei?

post-nihilism civitas macrocosmos?

toynbee's 19 civilizations?

rather mankind's single anthropography

eg Mount Pleasant tombstones

the passing 'eternity' of stones

the lost sense of Time

engulfed by secularized, mundane time

gnothi seauton also

the greatness and the baseness of man

the examined life?

the unexamined life...
the distracted life
the entertained life
the exoticized life

Made in ...

from underground plumbing to elegant porticos
Made in Man

sic transit gloria humanae

as tornados show with our homes, so nazi and gulag soldiers with our societies

interesting history

history would be more interesting
if more people were