Notes in exile from expatriation

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mundanity and politics

what socio-political system anywhere anytime has or can govern not merely the "seven deadly sins"...
but the mediocrity, the selfish myopia, the thoughtlessness,...
of men and women in places high and low

Moscow metro psychography, one aspect

Russian people regularly paying attention to your, not their, own business

Sociosopher

An individual who attempts to gain real, living insight, understanding and wisdom about human society.
Sociosophy - wisdom of society

Nietzsche contra Emerson

in mid May 1832 Emerson wrote in his journal:
"I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos."

Nietzsche would later say "Abyss".

"I am proud to be..."

pride in being a member of some group: racial, ethnic, religious, national, sexual,...has about as much substance, seriousness and meaning as saying "I am proud to be a human being".
a person so proud has done little to nothing for this status, and it is often just a shallow, thoughtless social substitute for those who cant be proud of their individual acts

individualities?

most are more accurately dividuals, mutualities

Zuckerberg and the Crystal Palace

Zuckerberg's realistic kid-idealism of connecting the entire world and all of humanity via/with the internet is the direct -- if naive, unconscious and unreflective -- continuation of the summery Crystal Palace of which Dostoyevsky wrote his winter impressions.

asleeping in time

most are unconsciously asleep in mundane time
or...
mundanely asleeping in time

musical pollution

most commercial advertising pollutes the air and the human psyche by the music it ab-uses