~5:10am Reading on Emerson's "self-reliance" and/versus social engagement… Consciously keeping advanced personal development inside of social engagement*? While certainly Bildung (Eckhardt, Goethe) sub specie Dante is more important to one's self, and lasting, than engagement in crowded politics. *serious societal issues and problems, not polite chatter. 5:15 am Mutually shared, unspoken suffering maintained for years, plus maternal love and relation, kept me more "polite" in and to my "hometown" than I otherwise might c/would have been. This starting and maintaining – as years, eventually decades, of unhometown, intellectual development increased – a deep divide between my self and society. 5:25am Most I know are "continent" rather than "island". Including in their thoughts, emotions, opinions… Few men (or women) are an island. 1:45pm Competing rhetorics of American society 8:02pm Observing and respect for each other, the ope...
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