Sloan Creative

• How to find right livelihood after selling a 12 year business.
• Is Emerson right about history? “… there is properly no history; only biography.” “All that Shakespeare says of the King, yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner feels to be true of himself. We sympathize and the great moments of history, in the great discoveries, the great resistances, the great propensities of man; — because there law was enacted, the sea was searched, the land was found, or the blow was struck for us, as we ourselves in that place would have done or applauded.”
• How ideas roll and distort across geography and time. I’m especially interested in how the ideas of the Enlightenment, Nietzsche, and Karl Marx rolled across Europe into Hungary, forcing my family from the Hernad valley, near Miskolc, Hungary, in which they had lived for over 800 years.
• I’m curious about democracy and education and the manipulation of masses that has led to so much destruction and waste in the last hundred years. Even longer if you count the Crusades. Of course, the subject is extremely timely both here in the United States with so much manipulation apparent from the current administration and in Hungary with the recent admissions of manipulation of the elections and lies.
• How do mass movements start? Eric Hoffer says lack of self respect is a contributing factor.
• Reading the tea leaves of current events and the swirling historical forces arranging them to see if we are going to be engulfed by another era of tragedy as our grandparents were. Fanaticism unleashed by inequality and systemic failure in the age of Revolution and the Great Depression.

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