from inside Spaso house -- amidst all those with ties and high heels -- watched the inaugural of President Obama...a polite Steppenwolf...
certainly one can find in the rhetoric of the Senator, the woman (who seems to have had little idea what an invocation is, but who nonetheless) gave the invocation, as well as Obama's address, some idea(s) or other(s) to dreamily live by.
but not one of these gave a talk of any real coherence and order. eg God was included more like a sun-god: distant but warming...and apparently liberally willing to be claimed as approving of such somnabulistic unclear speaking about "Him" in the clear light of mid-day, and how "He" blesses this and that of America...
and all the various re/acquired elements of the American credo were restated in one combination or other: "life, liberty, and the pursuit of...", "government of, by...", "liberty and ...", freedom, equality.... (in relation to Hesse's Steppenwolf: they are "for everyone"...not for "madmen".)
a kind of smorgasboard of inspirational wordings: take and remember what you want Americans.
but do not try to make much sense out of these words. they were more for lulling than reasoning. a few contrasting theologies were hinted; variations ontic and political anthropologies; varied social-political theories mixed....
a forgettable commemoration. all seemed adequately and politely spellbound by the motley rhetoric of America. more traditional local/national anesthetic than any clear statement of the American state.
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