Thoreau in his philosophic view of a meaningful life asked
if a telegraph line to Texas was an improved means to an unimproved end. And
what of smartfons, tweetings and instant messaging? A mean end?
If Russian ‘leaders’ had any integrity and honor, they would
be ashamed; thus, understandably, they are proud.
What can be thought by/about all those who are aware they
are wearing fake brands?
Most are unhatched eggs.
History ends not with a bang, but with a mall.
A pathetic note: The most despondent days of hours are those
during which any Meaning to being and search seem uncertainly absent,
apparently absurd, mocking(less)ly without end.
:-)
The world: a global shopping mall.
MO$COW, RU$$IA
The majorities imagine they dress themselves.
One advantage to Russian society and culture after Soviet
ideology was widely seen as a failed ideological system was that most people
had something in common they disagreed about. Now they can not even disagree about
the same things.
Amazing that only some 3 and ½ of my lifetimes ago Napoleon
was in Moscow.
Though asleep, we dream we are, not, in many ways.
Putin predictably said to his crowd “We love Russia!” Better
if he had said: ‘Let us make Russia worthy of loving’. But that would be
expecting too much of politics.
Upon what real foundation are Hegel’s views taken more
seriously than, say, Shirley Maclain’s or Stanislav Grof’s?
Every tourist thoughtlessly satisfied with the “nice time”
they had wherever – be it Egypt, Bali, Greece, Thailand, Florida,…helps flatten
the world, and histories and cultures.
