unacknowledged lighthouses of the world?

ignored, rarely-noticed human lighthouses...
of society, world, life, history.
 

unconsciously being human

most are unconscious of the ideas in and by which they live
 

Meaning

a history of human ideas of Meaning

a history of human ideas of Meaninglessness
 

$ vs ?!

the ? at and about the mind and heart of world, life and self
 

the ideas in which we sleep, move and have our being

recognizing that suburbs life, the hunting and country clubs, the summer camps, going out into "the woods", camping, the seeking of some consolation and/or reverie in nature... are in fact embodiments, realizations, of ideas in which most are happy to blithely pursue their life, liberty and...happiness" unreflectively... or at most semi-conscious in and of the ideas, in thought, of what they are doing, is a solitarizing awareness and awakeness.

(reflection on Peter J. Schmitt's, 1969, Back to Nature: The Arcadian Myth in American Culture)
 

created equal?

yes indeed, inthought, inword...
in their virtues and vices
 

if "all the world's a stage"...

where are the director, producer(s), the scriptwriter(s)?
 

the Moscow drowned

the barren Soviet social ideology has over the past two+ decades been gradually flooded by the consumerist mentality and raisons d'être...
and like much of the rest of world, most seem rather content to seek to be happy so.

few seem wishing to struggle to keep their heads above water, gasping for culture, for much of any aire of higher things...
  

a changed Moscow -- summer 2013

anyone who saw the center of Moscow only at the beginning of summer 2013 will be shocked at how much it has changed by fall's begin. including the absence of what had become omnipresent street advertising.
 

after "hell on earth"...

those who have been through "hell on earth" can hardly communicate with those who haven't.