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.