One Of Many Montana Local History Signs For The Traveler =>
….Explains History Of Area Where Big Horn River Flows Into The Yellowstone River. At End, Things Got To Be Brutal..

[[The ZMM Narrator has just finished explaining some of the conclusions of Phaedrus, and turns to some VERY important conclusions.as follows => ]]
…. “ As I’ve said, he did in the end offer a number of solutions, but the problem was so deep and so formidable and complex that no one really understood the gravity of what he was resolving, and so failed to understand or misunderstood what he said.
…..The cause of our current social crises, he would have said, is a genetic defect within the nature of reason itself. And until this genetic defect is cleared, the crises will continue. Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking it further and further from that better world. Since the Renaissance these modes have worked. As long as the need for food, clothing and shelter is dominant they will continue to work. But now that for huge masses of people these needs no longer overwhelm everything else, the whole structure of reason, handed down to us from ancient times, is no longer adequate. It begins to be seen for what it really is—emotionally hollow, esthetically meaningless and spiritually empty. That, today, is where it is at, and will continue to be at for a long time to come.
….I’ve a vision of an angry continuing social crisis that no one really understands the depth of, let alone has solutions to. I see people like John and Sylvia living lost and alienated from the whole rational structure of civilized life, looking for solutions outside that structure, but finding none that are really satisfactory for long. And then I’ve a vision of Phædrus and his lone isolated abstractions in the laboratory...actually concerned with the same crisis but starting from another point, moving in the opposite direction...and what I’m trying to do here is put it all together. It’s so big...that’s why I seem to wander sometimes. “
….(( The Narrator’s above “ a genetic defect within the nature of reason itself. And ….. Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward into a better world. They are taking it further and further from that better world.. “.applies to the NEXT Photo”
…. AND will also serve to illustrate (as mentioned in 3rd sentence above). how => “ John and Sylvia living lost and alienated from the whole rational structure of civilized life …. “.)}

I-94 Rest Area 5 Miles West of Custer, MT. My navigation by “dead reckoning” and luck had returned me well enough to I-94, for food, and gas at Casper MT. Then driving here, I found a nice place to rest. While eating my “gas station burger,” I looked over the Yellowstone River Valley to the North, and read signs about local history.
….My map does not mark any reasonable non-interstate roads for the next 23 miles stretch between Custer, MT. and Nibbe, MT. Thus I was “forced to take the Interstate”.
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A NOTE RE The /\ Above Photo of Local History Sign, Relates To US Military Treatment Of Native Americans:
….The town of Custer, MT, was named for General George Armstrong Custer, who died at the Battle of Little Big Horn. The battle site is named after the Big Horn River, which runs from the Wyoming Mountains to the Yellowstone River, Just East of Custer, MT. The Custer Battlefield Nat’l Monument is about 40 miles South of here.
… Wikipedia Has Full Information & Many Contemporary Photos, Concerning The Battle of Little Big Horn. Click Here.
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(Photo = 105-0556 …… ZMM Page 102 ...... WayPt = 113w)