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

lattes for apes?

sitting in Starbucks Europeiski Moscow...
they all seem quite undisturbed...
and certainly distracted...
whether their ur-ancestors were apes or angels

...And all the ideas and emotions merely players?

All the world's a stage,
And all the ideas and emotions mainly players

cacology? cacosophy? pathosophy? demonosophy?

rather than a merely intellectual "theodicy",

or even an "anthropodicy"...

a "cacology" (knowledge/study of evil) and better a "cacosophy" (wisdom of...)

a "pathosophy" (wisdom of suffering)

even a "demonosophy"

are needed.

(if only to play more seriously with as ideas)

truly searching for Truth?

a search for Truth can only truly begin after realizing one doesn't have it
historically... socially... individually...

and that whether one had, lost or disbelieved it

Muir or Moses?

consider for insights the contrasting peak experiences of Moses and Muir

well, naturally...

nature as home

nature as cage

nature as stage

unleashing the brutes

unleashing the primitives, the brutes...
history is filled with their acts
released intentionally or naively