Southern Gentleman vs Steppenwolf

Journal extract:
people do not think here. they are awake enough to do their how of living, and perhaps a few other aspects -- but that "God died" some century ago, they still have not heard. God is called in on Sundays, or sometimes to bless meals. or as an explanatory guidance behind exceptions in disasters. God may be their ultimate concern -- to adapt Tillich -- but they 'live and move and have their being' in a very penultimate, this-worldly state of mind and life. a "Steppenwolf" studies questions and seeks answers 'they have not dreamt of in their philosophy' -- or only known in their forgotten sleeps' dreams.
they live absorbed in the how of this world. not the why of this, or an other.
plus, thy are most all so encouched in society, as to make a strong individuality appear anti-social. each time I come here, it is like going into a world of those asleep in their waking lives. Nietzsche's madman proclaimed the void at the heart of life. i am too polite, or see no point, here.
Southern Gentleman vs Steppenwolf