an observation I have made of many in the USA is that, with rather little serious common educational and study background, and yet a general idealism at least of American and/or "universal" ideals and values, is that people live in a kind of personal idea fog. they don't have a shared intellectual conception of history, their society, themselves, the secular and the spiritual, etc, so they of necessity talk in and from their own personal fog of ideas. were they clear about their ideas, and how these relate to the world, others, history, etc, they would not be foggy.
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