Sunday, November 10, 2019

2019 - Day 313/52 - Saturday...Zeitgeist...

My, my, my...up and at 'em at about 4:40 Pacific time, off to the Oracle Park for some stadium climbing to benefit the REALTOR® Relief Fund. Then a quick video for later distribution, breakfast, MLS Forum, Trade Show (quick visit), Federal Legislative and Political Forum, General Session and ending the day with a Major Investor event at the USS Hornet. I will get to sleep in tomorrow morning (whatever), and it will be a slow day, but a good day for doing some networking and visiting with colleagues.

Zeitgeist -- Noun (often capitalized). the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an ear. The movie, set in the 1990s, does an excellent job of capturing the zeitgeist of the dot-com boom.

Did You Know? Scholars have long maintained that each era has a unique spirit, a nature or climate that sets it apart from all other epochs. In German, such a spirit is known as Zeitgeist, from the German words Zeit, meaning "time," and Geist, meaning "spirit" or "ghost." Some writers and artists assert that the true zeitgeist of an era cannot be known until it is over, and several have declared that only artists or philosophers can adequately explain it. We don't know if that's true, but we do know that zeitgeist has been a useful addition to the English language since at least 1835.

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