"Give me liberty...?"

or...
"...give me safety?"
Патрик Генри

a music bath

after watching TV or listening to a radio, one should take an inner bath with cleansing music, and wash away the insidious commercial music from inside

America's ruined reputation

will the CIA principles and operatives be held accountable?
no

and when in the future the full history of the CIA covertly in the world is finally admitted -- like this report today does about CIA Torture -- it will be as damning of America's ideals as this report, and require a completely different understanding of American life and success during this period.

Pythagoras of Samos and John of Patmos

Pythagoras has been to space,
what John of Patmos has been to time

Out-Ranked by Nietszche

"all epochs are immediate to God*" -- Ranke

*which is dead -- Nietzsche

Weltanschauung?

Welteinschauung
welteinschauen

a new Enlightenment in Russia?

rather a Reendarkenment

human speciation

few are able to speciate their selves from their groups

Re: National Geographic's Apocalypses

The general title of these two National Geographic series is "Apocalypse" (http://natgeotv.com/asia/apocalypse-world-war-i; http://natgeotv.com/asia/apocalypse-the-second-world-war), by which the creators mean terrible, dramatic events in human history (since not the end of the world). But what the two series really are is an apocalypse, an un-covering (Greek apokalupsis, from apokaluptein ‘uncover, reveal,’ from apo- ‘un-’ + kaluptein ‘to cover.'), a revealing of the human being, individually, socially and collectively.
These films can be viewed more usefully as lessons in realistic social psychology than as just past, if relevant, history.

irresponsible in the USA

one of the greatest social problems in the USA:
at all levels and in all areas -- people not being seriously responsible for their actions, before or after