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2) 1937, May 6th. /Dirigible Hindenburg, N. Atlantic, SOS message repeated for 6 hours eve-ry ten minutes before its arrival/explosion at its destination (Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey, USA) ; messages never publicly released, and revealed by a Russian hacker who raid-ed a secret Pentagon archive in 2005; to hear this existential message, click on Technia –

3) 1938, June 14th/ USS Arne Saknussemm (USS Navy/ clandestine operations); SOS messa-ge issued from south of Tsalal island (Ross Sea) before she vanished (at the very same time its sister, USS Grampus, engaged NW of Iceland in the same operation vanished as well); message never publicly released: to hear this existential message, click on Technia –

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4) 1943, Oct 28th./ USS Eldridge during the Project Rainbow teleporting experiment; message retrieved in 1999 from a case of classified materials found near the Seal Beach, CA, Naval base; to hear this existential message, click on Goddess Technia –

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5) 1997, August 9 th. /Misanthropy’s Project/ message sent from Podkamennaya Tunguska River (Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, Russia), and intercepted in Cosmos by Soyuz TM26/ Mir, right by the time of the station’s near collision with MSTI 2 (an abandoned satellite that sud-denly made an aggressive, unexpected dash towards Soyuz/Mir), message later acknowled-ged as having been received, AND RESPONDED TO from somewhere near Alpha Centauri constellation; to hear this existential message, click on Goddess Technia –

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1) 1912, April 14 th./ Sinking RSM Titanic, N.-Atlantic, SOS message never released to the public, accidentally leaked by M-5; to hear this existential message, click on Goddess Technia

νησιμότητα, σκοπός του / νόημα της ζωής, την έννοια της ανθρώπινης προσπάθειας - υπάρχει κάτι που εκ νέου υπαγωγή των εν εξοργιστικής τρένο της δοκιμασίες και μικροεξόδων πειρασμούς ότι η ανθρώπινη ζωή είναι; Είναι ένα καταπέλτη, καθολική, κοσμική, ενωτική καθεστώς στον τομέα εκεί που, ενώ απατηλό για τους θνητούς νευρικός, χαράς υπάρχει, που συνδέει τα πάντα; Τις αμέτρητες πέρασε, το παρόν και το μέλλον της ανθρώπινης ζωής, puniest ή πιο θεαματική, άθλια ή θαυμάσια, οδυνηρό τρόπο ή ασυναίσθητα και ...

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Note: for a complete description of the TRUE circumstances in which these extraordinary messages were sent as well as how they were received and treated at the respective time, and of how Misanthropy’s Project was able to acquire them,, messages, the reader might want to visit Misanthropy’s Pro-ject Archives page –

.... and the podcast screen on which the proceedings of the broadcast will be made available to the larger audien-ce of QUO VADIS, AMERICA? / Mi-santhropy’s Report...

... and some other important elements of this extraordinary Contest, like the talented engineer who, from his high-tech laboratory, will broadcast world-wide the selected entries of QUO VA-DIS, AMERICA/ Misanthropy’s Con-test of Literary Variations....

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The Misanthropy Institute Proudly Introduces
QUO VADIS, AMERICA?

IS

The Quo Vadis, America?

Misanthropy’s Ever Expanding Wings Interactive Contests Program Of Literary Variations...

From Misanthropy Institute’s Archives

.... but before going to the Contest’s specifics, a special acknowledgement to Goddess Technia

and her two children,

Electricity and Ingenuity...

... and to Goddess Technia Grandsons,

Samuel Morse, Guglielmo Marconi

... whose collective efforts and inquisitive spirit have eventually lead to the Marconi Room...

... Marconi Room which at its turn has allowed such a bold enterprise like the present Misanthropy Institute,

Morse-Coded, Universe-Wide Broadcast

Contest Of Literary Variations

Happen...

Now, why exactly a Morse-coded Li-terary contest?

Since the main section of this page displays a complete Raison d’Etre for this Contest, the Misanthropy Institute will limit himself to explain in this tech-nical side-bar that...

... because Misanthropy’s Ever-Ex-panding Wings Report is essentially just another rendering of the human en-terprise and condition, rendering which concludes in a rather melancholy mood (see Chapter 8-Finale), this melancholy background (which has in the recent past been augmented by much and jus-tified anxiety and sense of precarious-ness about this nation’s and the world’s future, and by a pervasive sen-se of individual tenuousness), the Mi-santhropy Institute has found that the Morse signals’ poignant mixture of in-genuity, deep cosmic penetration po-wer, ability to carry meaningful content in nowhere’s depths, and, alas! frailty, is perfectly fit for this existentialism-tinged job.

... and Nikola Tesla,

The Misanthropy Institute hopes that the following historical Morse trans-missions (selected from Misanthropy’s Institute Archives/ Existential Studies Section) will show why Morse signals are such a fit carrier for this literary contest’s wide-reaching existential am-bitions:

So, this contest offers the Report’s readers the opportunity to respond to the deeply unsettling facts and situations presented by MISANTHROPY’S EVER-EXPANDING WINGS REPORT in an empowering manner, allowing them, readers, to echo, emulate or enlarge in free literary form upon some selected situations described by this Report, and post them in the Misan-thropy Institute’s site provided space as an elaborate comments – and because the situations described by MISANTHROPY’S REPORT come in a vast rainbow (from deciphering the true meaning and purposes of various contemporary political occurrences, lofty existential philosophical musings to sexual copulation techniques, etc.), the possibilities lurking in the Re-port’s substance for the readers of inquisitive mind to echo or emulate in galvanizing rumina-tions, of which the most inciting ones will be universe-wide disseminated by the Misanthropy Institute are indeed remarkable.

And to close in a frank manner these explanatory paragraphs, Mr. Michael Chivulescu, presi-dent of the Misanthropy Institute will announce here that he and his associates are aware of the uncertainty looming over this Literary Contest’s likelihood to fulfill its lofty intentions (existential endeavor much resembling some ship-wreck’s wretched survivors on a barren is-land launching messages in bottles on an indifferent ocean), discouraging situation which might dissuade potential contestants join this Misanthropy Institute offer – yet even in this bleak outcome, Mr. Michael Chivulescu, alone yet with unshakeable fortitude, will continue his existential enterprise of Morse broadcasting via Misanthropy Institute’s facilities into the unfathomable Universe, other and other fresh philosophical insights, reports, comments and planetary assessments extracted from Misanthropy Institute’s vast archives or current re-search – a ragged, solitary figure with a squeaky, pedals-spun generator & an ancient Morse

The Contest’s Raison D’Etre: In order to clarify the ori-gins and purposes of this contest, the visitors of the Misan-thropy Institute site are first reminded here that the Misan-thropy Institute’s crowning achievement, the mobilizing MI-SANTHROPY’S EVER-EXPANDING WINGS REPORT is being published under the US District Court (SACU) severe editorial supervision, both printed book and website being allowed to eventually (and temporarily) present to the Ame-rican public only an altered and truncated version of the vast amount of situations and facts unearthed by the Institute and described by MISANTHROPY’S original version.

While this Court’s emasculating MISANTHROPY’S des-criptive qualities has certainly limited its incendiary and mo-bilizing power, the ripples created in the national psyche by

the recent publication of the Report (printed book and web-site), showed that even in this di-minished form, MISANTHROPY’S factual content and revelations aptly respond to Ameri-can public’s worries, frustrations and anxieties regarding this nation’s disheartening tra-jectory in the world and history, as well as to the people’s gnawing sense of individual frailty and fleetingness – indeed, it’s been confirmed that these aching concerns (well grasped by the MISANTHROPY’S EVER/ QUO VADIS, AMERICA? notions/ titles), generally get a prominent place in the readers’ minds after they go through the Report, or visit this site.

Since the QUO VADIS, AMERICA?/ MISANTHROPY’S Interactive Literary Contest is an Internet-driven affair, hosted by the Misanthropy Institute presentation web-site, every ele-ment of the Contest, from submitting entries to their (entries’) display for public examina-tion, to the selection of the most thought-provoking ones and announcement of the winners, publicity, everything, everything, up to the Contest’s culmination, i.e. the publication of the winning entries, will happen on the Internet... up to the crowning of the contest which will happen in a traditional, yet rather unusual media, which is a world-wide, Morse-coded broadcast...

Now – a Morse-coded broadcast literary contest finale? Audrey, they lost their minds!

Well, in cases there is some method in madness – so, the rationale for using this Morse-coded venue comes from the fact that MISANTHROPY’S EVER-EXPANDING WINGS’ after-taste is nothing but another variation of a melancholy mood which, since the beginnings of time, has always and unavoidably concluded any keener examination of the human enterprise and human condition. And since this perennial melancholy background has in the recent years been augmented by much and justified anxiety and sense of precariousness about this nation’s (and the world’s) future, and by a pervasive sense of individual tenuousness, the Misanthropy Ins-titute has found that the Morse signals’ poignant mixture of ingenuity, deep cosmic penetra-tion power, ability to carry meaningful content in nowhere’s depths, yet alas, so obvious frailty! is perfectly fit for this existentialism-tinged job – thus ideal carriers for this Contest’s riffs on themes drawn from MISANTHROPY’S EVER-EXPANDING WINGS REPORT.

And here we are – temporal well-being and spiritual yearning, concerns caused by the insta-bility of the material, concrete ambience and anxieties aroused by existential questions, sense of precariousness and fleetingness, and deep need for spiritual, existential mooring.

So, since the very US District Court, in its earnest attempt at muzzling MISANTHROPY’S REPORT findings that pointed to the two types of public concerns of above as being fore-most these days in the people’s minds, the Misanthropy Institute’s founder, president and Report chief writer, Mr. Michael Chivulescu, decided that while this site’s “Guest Book/ Com-ments” section offers a handy venue to those readers who want to express their views or feel-ings stirred by one or another situation presented by MISANTHROPY’S, they and the Re-port’s QUO VADIS, AMERICA? cause would greatly benefit from addressing those concerns in a more creative, direct and compelling manner.

I. e., like in the present, interactive QUO VADIS, AMERICA?/ MISANTHROPY’S Morse-Coded, Universe-Wide Contest Of Literary Variations Drawn From Situations described by MISANTHROPY’S EVER-EXPANDING WINGS REPORT, contest of literary variations which will allow the Report readers to express their views, anxieties and hopes regarding the challenging issues, both material and spiritual, America and this world has began to face in our times – this contest occurring under the Misanthropy’s Report prestigious aegis established by the Institute’s successful unlocking the ages-old, “Is There A Meaning To Life?”existential question with the Potapovich Existential Series/ C-O-C-O-T-C demonstration.

And since the US District Court (SACU) has also acknowledged in its ruling that its highly unusual action has been caused by the Report’s incendiary insights and revelations, the Misan-thropy Institute will further also show here that the revelations the Court found as the most incendiary in the MISANTHROPY’S REPORT describe, (a): the various obscure yet relent-less actions that have for long undermining America’s well-being, and (b): the Misanthropy Institute’s formidable, complete and definitive solving of the ages-old, mankind-torment-ing, existential question “Is there a meaning in human life?” (This issue being magisterially dealt with in the MISANTHROPY’S REPORT Epilogue, which describes the ample scientific proceedings that eventually yielded the answer to this momentous question, as formulated in the human self-awareness-changing Potapovich Existential Series/ C-O-C-O-T-C.)

NOTE: (a) current edition: Misanthropy’s Institute’s vast, ever-growing catalogue of events and situations of concern assures plenty of themes for future variations contests; (b) as a teaser (or in order to give some creative, encouraging elbow space to potential con-testants), the Contest’s themes panel below displays besides the current contest theme the next two incoming contests themes whose Mi-santhropy’s Ever context can be located in the site’s existing text – those future contests roll-in dates TBA.

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Misanthropy Institute Interactive

Morse-Coded, Universe-Wide Broadcast Contest Of Literary Variations

On Themes Drawn From Events & Situations Described By

MISANTHROPY’S EVER-EXPANDING WINGS REPORT

(About, Rules & Guidelines)

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1) Because the various situations and events described by MISANTHROPY’S EVER-EX-PANDING WINGS REPORT (extracted from Misanthropy’s Institute’s research and stu-dies), proved to have a remarkable galvanizing power, the Misanthropy Institute web-site of-fers to MISANTHROPY’S audience the possi-bility to creatively emulate said situations, then submit their endeavors to the larger Internet audience for appreciation, and further dissemi-nation via this website (MISANTHROPY’S printed edition extends the same invitation at various points along its unfolding);

2) The Misanthropy Institute Literary Varia-

key challenging the Cosmos from this depres-sing Tsalal Island that this planet is.

With the above paragraphs as an introduction to Misanthropy Institute’s Interactive Literary Variations Contest, those interested in riffing on the situation/theme offered for emulation by the current contest, can find: (a) the res-pective theme/ title in the below, Themes Pa-nel (under the following About, Rules & Guidelines section), leading to the Misan-thropy’s Report context pages which provide the original MISANTHROPY’S EVER situa-tion offered as theme for emulation in a litera-ry form of the reader’s choice, and (b) the lead for the Contest page where the eventual variations/ submissions will be displayed for the visitors’ perusal and analysis ‘till the day when the readers will vote for the most incit-ing submissions, and the Misanthropy Institute will Morse broadcast the winners Universe-wide for an, alas! possible, somewhere, far, far away audience for retrieval and examina-tion, and, possibly sympathetic answer ...

tions Contest occurs under the Misanthropy’s Report philosophical aegis established by the Institute’s successful unlocking the ages-old, “Is There A Meaning To Life?”existential quest-ion with the Potapovich Existential Series/ C-O-C-O-T-C demonstration.

3) The Contest has been established with the following intentions: (a) to alert the American public about the many deeply disturbing events and situations unearthed, studied, then boldly presented by the Misanthropy Institute in the pages of the Report, situations which have occur-red in America since the Nineties, and which, while abjectly papered-over by nefarious forces, have crept into, and have been negatively influencing the unfolding of our current history ever since (see Genesis, Mission, Prospects & Status page); (b) to empower the Report readers to express their views, anxieties and hopes regarding the acute material and spiritual issues America and this world face in our times, and this from a philosophical position inspired by the Institute’s successful unlocking of the “Is There A Meaning To Life?” existential question via the Potapovich Existential Series/ C-O-C-O-T-C demonstration; (c) to provide an opportunity to aspiring public commentators to display their talents and insightfulness by creatively enlar-ging upon the said situations of great concern in edifying and engaging forms; (d) to have the resulting collection of insights displayed in the Misanthropy Institute’s Internet forum for further public edification and debate; (e) to reward the insights/ entries found most stirring by the audience by Universe-wide, Morse broadcasting them for eventual reception and decipher-ing by other forms of active, hopefully sympathetic intelligence in the universe;

4) Since this Contest is an Internet affair, its editions will be announced in as many possible Internet venues, like literary sites or political blogs; the Contest editions’ ulterior developments (like polling dates, etc.), and other pertinent facts, will be announced at the proper times on the Misanthropy Institute website;

5) Legal ownership of a physical, printed copy of MISANTHROPY’S EVER-EXPANDING WINGS REPORT is highly recommendable (and this can be achieved via this very site), yet this is not a pre-requisite for entrance in this contest, because the site’s Contest pages display the Report’s context containing the theme’s original situation which is supposed to be emu-lated;

6) MISANTHROPY’S vast reservoir of recorded facts and situations contains events which range from contemporary/political/mundane to timeless/transcendent, and this vast range will be reflected by the interactive Contest’s incoming editions’ themes offered for variations;

7) The Interactive Literary Variations Contest is cyclical, the present edition’s critical dates being: entries can be posted from 12/26/09 to 03/26/2010; the Internet polling date (end of March 2010) will be announced in a timely manner, together with the ensuing date of winning entries announcement, and the date and details of the winning entries world-wide Morse broadcast; the contest reserves the right to extend or change these terms, and if so, it will announce the already existing contestants about the change(s) in cause;

Important update: the Contest entry date, etc. for the incoming cycle will be announced soon.

24) The present set of rules governing the Misanthropy Institute Interactive Morse-Coded, Universe-Wide Broadcast Contest Of Literary Variations On Themes Suggested by MISAN-THROPY’S EVER-EXPANDING WINGS REPORT can be changed or altered at any time by the contest’s sole owner and administrator, the Misanthropy Institute.

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The QUO VADIS, AMERICA?/ MISANTHROPY’S EVER-EXPANDING WINGS REPORT Interactive Contest Of Literary Variations On Themes Drawn From MISANTHROPY’S EVER [....] (or “Contest”) is owned, organized and operated by the Misanthropy Institute, publisher of MISANTHROPY’S EVER-EXPANDING WINGS REPORT (© 2004, 2007, 2010); the Contest and the QUO VADIS, AMERICA?/ MISANTHROPY’S EVER-EXPANDING WINGS REPORT are part of Misanthropy Institute which is based in Los Angeles, California, USA; special activities occasionally require the Misanthropy Institute to operate elsewhere in the world.

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8) The Contest’s present edition offers (1) one theme for emulation, and announces the next, incoming two contests themes; their context will be available soon on this site;

9) The number of themes offered for variations by a Misanthropy Institute edition can vary; if the present Contest’s unfolding shows encouraging signs, the Misanthropy Institute may in-clude at earlier dates one or two of the announced themes in Literary Variations Contests, in cycles leapfrogging the current one’s deadline; should this occur, everything will be announced in a timely manner in this site’s pages;

10) The Contest entries have to be a creative take/ variation/ emulation of the theme pro-posed by the Contest, theme which can be found within its larger factual context in the current Contest’s site page;

11) There are no stylistic restrictions governing the interactive Literary Variations format, and they (Literary Variations), can come as essays, fiction, traditional or blank verse, screen-play or drama format, poetry in traditional or blank form, serious or parody, etc.; however, no submission can go over 4 pages length (MISANTHROPY’S EVER format, 4 pages of 700 words = approx. 2800 words), which is also about the length of the current, original MI-SANTHROPY’S situations/ themes to be emulated;

12) The entries for the Contest have to be made via e-mail bloom.misanthropys.morse @ gmail.com, from the Current Contest page (the existing Misanthropy Institute website com-ments system is a Guest Book for general comments); also, the eventual submission must be formatted as Rich Text in order to preserve its intended format;

13) All entries must be: (a) titled, (b) have an author (true/ pen-name) and (c) have the submittor’s e-mail address by the title for easing the sorting job; the e-mail address will not be re-published when the entry will be posted on the Misanthropy Institute Contest page (details on the Current Contest page); one contestant may submit a second, or more entries per Contest cycle;

14) All entries, after review and acceptance will be posted for public examination on a dedicated, Misanthropy Institute web-site Current Contest page in their arrival & processing sequence with title & author (e-mail address removed); the posting of the reviewed entries will occur on a weekly or so basis; the Current Contest page which displays the entries will have an open blog/ comments section for eventual comments regarding the submissions;

15) Entries that are not related to the theme(s) proposed for emulation, or which exceed Misanthropy’s Attractions (anyway lax) sense of “adequate” will be rejected;

16) The winners of the Contest will be decided by public polling;

17) The announcement of the date of polling will be done well before the polling date, but the polling device will be installed/ activated on the site only on the polling day;

18) The public polling will establish the Literary Variations Contest’s most appreciated en-tries, and the three (3) entries with most votes will be: (1) Grand Winner and two (2) winning runner-ups;

19) The three entries with most votes will be then Morse-coded & Universe-wide broad-cast according to an previously announced schedule, the names of their authors inserted in the entries’ titles (the winners presence not necessary, details about the day and time, etc. of the event will provided before the polling device will be installed on the site); the three winners will also receive by mail from the Misanthropy Institute one (1) commemorative set of distinctive New Normalcy/ Misanthropy’s garments of one (1) cap, (1) wind-jacket, and three (3) QUO VADIS, AMERICA?/ MISANTHROPY’S EVER-EXPANDING WINGS REPORT T-shirts;

20) The Misanthropy Institute contest winners’ entries will be publicized together with the details of the winning piece on the Institute’s FaceBook, My-Space and other cyber sharing means;

21) After the Morse-coded broadcast of the winning entries, they (winning entries) will re-main in the Literary Variations Contest Winners Gallery dedicated page for one year (year computed from the date of the announcement of the winners); the Misanthropy Institute will also post together with the winning entries photos, bios, etc. and eventual contact links;

22) All entries are the property of the submitor; the submitor, by submitting an entry to the Misanthropy Institute’s Literary Variations Contest agrees and promises that if a piece sub-mitted and accepted by the Misanthropy Institute Contest (selected or not selected as winner for the Morse-coded Universe-wide broadcast), will have a ulterior public career/ develop-ment, its first embodiment as Misanthropy Institute Literary Variations Contest entry or win-ner should be credited as such;

23) The Misanthropy Institute is a self-supporting enterprises that is animated by a high sense of public service and duty towards the well-being of this country and of the world, and its success in reaching its present dimensions and effectiveness is owed to the Institute’s founder and president’s (Mr. Michael Chivulescu) dedication and insightfulness, and to his associates’ selfless assistance; these qualities, enhanced by a few discrete financial sponsors, have made possible for the Misanthropy Institute to defeat much adversity and obstruction (see Genesis, Status & Legal Issues page), and the advancement of this project cannot be thwarted anymore. Unfortunately, the Interactive Literary Variations Contest’s expenses are not covered by the larger Misanthropy Institute operational budget, and this situation has for-ced the administrators to institute a fee for those who wish the enter this Contest, fee aiming to offset the labor and expenses necessary for adequately running it. Therefore, a fee of $3 is necessary to be paid for each Contest entry for being processed and displayed in QUO VADIS, AMERICA? Contest’s pages – the $3 fee can be paid via the PayPal system present in any QUO VADIS page, and should mention the title of the entry for which the payment is done. (NOTE: in case of two or more entries, each entry is subject to an entry fee).

These details will be made public together with the Contest dates soon.

* All facts, events, situations, trends & characters identified, analyzed, described, catalogued, sys-tematized and archived along the years-long activity that has lead to the materialization of the Quo Vadis, America?/ Misanthropy’s Ever-Expanding Wings Report, and to other Misanthropy Institute past, current or future Programs and research activities, as well the results of all other experiments, re-enactments, simulations or replications required by said systematization, belong to a vast, oftentimes highly incendiary collection of data that has been recently made available to the public by Misan-thropy Institute’s publishing outfit Handmade Books in print as Quo Vadis, America?/ Misanthropy’s Ever-Expanding Wings Report, a comprehensive Report that synthesizes said data in a US District Court-mandated redacted form.

* The present Misanthropy Institute website, besides introducing to the public the activities of Mi-santhropy Institute, also displays many parts of said Quo Vadis, America?/ Misanthropy’s Ever-Expanding Wings Report and the proprietary nature of the mentioned printed Report’s data covers the materials presented on this website as well.

* For popularization purposes, many scientific and research elements of the Report have been converted in the past in various artistic, proprietary forms by the then, Misanthropy Attractions (cur-rently The Misanthropy Institute, or Author), and made public as Roxy’s Raptures (a stage play), Roxy’s Raptures (a film based on the stage play with the same name), Towards A Higher Level Of Financial Density (a screenplay and its sequenced trailer), Misanthropy’s Ever-Expanding Wings (an early research narrative), and Misanthropy’s Ever-Expanding Wings (an older version of this website).

* The mentioned proprietary feature also covers other research-generated elements presented in the current Report and in one or other of the said, previous – but not limited at – popularization works, like photographs, drawings, maps, charts, interviews, topographical & astronomical observations, film, video and audio records (authentic or re-enactments), and other research-generated elements used for presentations during retreats, interviews or media opportunities. Said research-generated materials displayed in the presented site include – but are not limited at – American Cacophonies, Chasm Ticker, Philosophical Shines (Post-Hypsithermal Times Scenes), The Rats Report, Gonadah Gamma G-9 Report, Judicial Loincloth, Philosophical Dung-bag, and The General Toxicology Explained.

* This proprietary situation also covers Misanthropy’s Ever-Expanding Wings Report ample, human self-awareness-changing Epilogue which explores and resolves the haunting, ages-old existential question Is There A Meaning To The Human Life?, by interpreting in a highly insightful manner various Misanthropy research-generated social, geological, geographical astronomical, historical, poli-tical, chemical, sexual, artistic, etc. data, then by integrating the results of this interpretation in a definitive answer to the philosophical question in cause in the

Potapovich Existential Series/C-O-C-O-T-C.

* The Misanthropy’s Ever-Expanding Wings Report (printed form), and the Report fragments displayed by the present Misanthropy Institute website under the Quo Vadis, America? headline are being published under US District Court (SACU*) severe restrictions.

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