foolishness en masse

the entire global mega shopping life shows the foolishness of mankind en masse
but it could be -- and has been -- much worse

majorities' mentalities

group-soul goals to mundane ends

the vicious cacodaemonia of ISIS

the cacodemons inspiring brutish men in current murderous example in northern Iraq are inspired by a spirit virtually the opposite to the spirit of Isis (with her eudaemonia)

the Russian Man-Boy

to understand Russian society, you must recognize and understand the common Russian man-boy

"peace on earth..."?

the ingredients of the varied, leveled human psyche -- individually and especially in groups -- substantiates that human history cannot come to a lasting peaceful state

ones' intellectual ancestors

for those for whom the ideas and lives of "Zarathustra", Plato, Plotinus, Origen, Aquinas, Ockham, Ficino, Luther, Hume, Goethe, Strauss,...are a complicated family personal(ized by study) history...

major changes since D-day?

has humanity -- either in nations, societies or more globally -- changed in any fundamental way from all that which was eg the origins and history of World War II?

White (House) lies

one can only hope that before Obama became President he had no idea how often he would need to lie and feign

(though to discerning (in)sight, he is not very good at these)

America's missing cacosophy

it is certainly clear that when one must look to a book like Moby Dick or even Biblical or Church Father demonology for an understanding of "evil" in man, that one can say America has long had an inadequate cacosophy