How does one begin a disinterested intellectual life?
How does one begin a disinterested intellectual life? While reading a book about the civil war between North and South Vietnam and the American involvement in that war on my back porch in Dallas in 1981, I was struck by the horrors committed by family members to one another. I could not understand how politics could cause this cruel fragmentation of families and communities. I decided that if I were to better comprehended America’s Civil War I might better understand what the Vietnamese had done to one another. Thus, unrecognized at the time, I began my intellectual journey of self-actualization. My initial question to myself was “how can politics overcome our natural instinct and our life long propensity to support our kin?” I started my journey of discovery in 1981 by seeking an answer to a vital question that aroused my curiosity and caring interest. I think that this is perhaps a basic maneuver that one can make to initiate an effort to develop the hobby of self-actualization throu
