Perhaps: If truth is thought to be in the shared life and in the social mechanisim, this might account for the peculiar modern tendency to limit the doing good to systemic and programmatic approaches.
For philosophy to be useful, it needs to reveal both our thoughts and the things we aren't thinking about. Cf. De Stael: "He will not believe anything false, but he will never believe many true things."
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At mass, the peculiar scent of wine in the back of the cathedral after communion. Undoubtedly someone with a flask, but also a reminder: the bread is the material substance, the wine the geist, the history, the event.
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Just to work this into the stream of thoughts: in the apartment over the Romanian city, the muse spoke most clearly, and told me to write. But it seemed the only people who would ever read it would be my family and their associates, who have at times seemed like an unreachable wall between myself and the world. So--don't fault the muse. And, after the recent (and present) adversities, those concerns have been overcome.
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I'm not exaggerating the danger in the nature of the present American society, conceptually speaking. Industrial prosperity excuses all, but the mechanism-- -- from the colleges for security guards (almost invariably of a certain demographic) to the immense wealth and power held outside the structures of public policy and democracy ---seems to suggest that fascism is conceptually complete, if not actually in evidence, at.least in this city.
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