April 29, 2012

Alexander von Humboldt observed the natives not perhaps much differently than I still try to do the Moscovites. Indeed, if I could better bear in mind that I am rather in a dormant human society – be that by nature or nurture – I might be less often annoyed and bored by the common natives.

Sometimes it seems quite clear: the higher the heel, the lower the level.

Those who don’t notice they are in a crowd.             

     

If their psyches are as awkward and motley as “their” style of dress and deportment…

April 17, 2012

Amongst aspects of the sleep of day in which most people are, how much they copy each other, and that smokers are addicts, are two.

Simply stated: Russian have revealed themselves en masse as dormant “spirits” to the culture, superficial lifestyle and ‘values’ of external ‘man’.

Ex material lux? Ex dei lux? Ex nihilo lux?

Irretrievable street alcoholics seem unable to escape enough that they do not sense to hide their bloated faces.

Xristos voskres?

Have zoologists attempted to determine whether apes ‘look down on’ others with disdain or astound for their bad habits?

Living personally “free”, ie, as they wish, is assumed an adequate ‘end’ by most persons.

The fact that I am trying to gather as many brilliant, priceless, jewels, gems, diamonds and gold of ideas and insights as possible is irrelevant to those who would try to rob, tax, or imprison me, were these possessions physical.

In post-Soviet sum: common Russians have succumbed to consumption rather than culture, and that as conspicuous as they can afford.

Shopping as narcotic. Anesthetic.

Are the acts of humans in fact less predictable than those instinctive in animals?

Studying the real history of un-, semi-, and conscious ideas, feelings, mores, and such, by and in which peoples live, allows one to partly untie, cut, fray, and feel our psychic marionette strings.

April 8, 2012

Man does not live by bread alone. Shopping helps.

After one has journeyed thru natural and social scenes romanticized by one’s self, then the societas cognita and terra cognita leaves one barren (“disenchanted”) and one longs and searches for nobler days.

Will the ideas of contemporary astrophysics, cosmogony and  -logy, etc, prove any more true to fact that Columbus’ belief of his discovery of “Eden” in South America?

Whither “fall in love”? Rise? Jump? Back into? Slide?

Two men in a room…a table covered with books. One man has read none; the other all. If silent…what then distinguishes them? (And at death? And thenafter?)

An attentive, discerning observer in the subways of NY, London and Moscow could gain much insight into their respective “unexamined lives” above.

For those less troubled: religion is the latte of the people.

Stopping to smell the roses is all well and good, but my nose has never sensed very well.

Afimoll, Moscow, Sunday April 8, 2012: The window displays like church icons, murals and tapestries, exemplifying less why to live than how to dress. Outer style, not inner way. Changed visuals for simple souls?

Post-Soviet teen fems now freely can try to find themselves in their cameras, magazines and shopping, rather than the literature, arts and music of the Soviet days. Something is lost, something is gained.

Living personally “free” (ie, as they wish) is assumed an adequate “end” by most persons.