"HEY," SAYS THE MIND, "LOOK OVER THIS WAY!" --
        "HEY," NEVER ADDS THE MIND, "IF YOU'RE A MORON."
 
 
 

In the thought, speech, and writings of man 
has always been note made of a conflict between
two particular opposing camps which influences everything from politics, to morality, to art & religion: 
a struggle most commonly referred to as being between 
Liberals, and  Conservatives,
some times as between Progressives, and The Orthodox,
but which could just as well be identified as occurring between 
the young, and the old;
the fresh, and the stale;
the excited, and the exhausted;
the smart-assed, and the settled;
the past, and the future,
or simply as a manifestation of life’s ongoing, 
two legged stroll through itself --  
via man’s conscious mind & non conscious instincts.
 
 

This push-pull method of locomotion is not specifically
located in any of the mortal areas above noted;
it is not a matter concerned with politics, religion, or any other feature of the thought-based, second reality that is so much a 
part of ordinary men’s lives.
They can certainly pretend to believe otherwise,
(as they are supposed to), and insist, for instance,
that there is determinable, finite significance whether
a man’s political views are Liberal, or Conservative,
but such is to mistake rain, and clear skies for the weather itself.
Due to its responsibilities and construction,
man’s mind consistently mislabels manifestations of 
a thing, for the thing itself.
This approach enables the mind to pragmatically deal-with, 
and subsequently rearrange man’s physical
surroundings to his benefit, but does not help in any effort by the mind to comprehend its own operations.
Once thought leaves the-arena-of-the-material
it will mentally focus on a particular feature in his second reality --  make intelligently sounding pronouncements concerning same, 
while mistaking a single ant for Entomology,
(or for you with insight up to I the task: 
mistaking the study & science of Entomology 
for the reality of an ant.)
 
 

Man’s mind is programmed to favor change;
the conscious thought the brain produces is primarily charged with finding new ways for man to profitably deal with his physical environment, and to do so:
”change IS the name of the game” --
it is the whole purpose of the mind’s existence,
but the part of a man’s being which is not conscious,
and thoughtful, but instinctive and automatic
is programmed obviously --  
to have no interest in novelty:
that is instinct’s strength,
just as the hunger for the new, is the mind’s.
 
 

As a verbally crude example, 
(though not invalid for our instant purpose),
you could say that at any given moment,
regarding any given mental matter,
the world is divided into two distinct camps:
if it concerns what is perceived to be a 
new type of music,
then half the world’s music listeners will approve of it,
and half will denounce it;
half will say that it represents the future of the art,
while the other half will say it portends its demise.
The same occurs in all facets of man’s 
second reality, be it politics, fashion, literature,
religion, the movies, morality, or human intelligence in general. 
Every ordinary person’s mind is innately programmed to feel that 
in areas of human experience that are not essential for 
physical survival,
half of what occurs is in some way detrimental, 
and a hindrance to progress.
Man’s mind is of two minds;
each man’s individual mind is but a part of man’s Collective Mind, and this master mind works by 
being binary, thus: Man’s mind is of two minds;
without there being two minds involved in all mental matters, (Conservative & Liberal), 
there would be no mental matters, 
(no politics, no religion, no seasonal fashions).
 
 

Your mind will forever be dissatisfied with “what is”,
while your physical instincts are forever in favor of the status quo & what has been previously experienced.
That is how it is in man, and to face it is to be loosed from a multitude of non fatal, annoying ant nibbles.
It is life’s today and its yesterday continually stirring within YOU, 
but on a scale so far removed from anything conceivable by the human mind as to be constructively unknowable, 
and thus of no possible mental significance.
But what you can do is:
realize the situation;
acknowledge and correctly identify the 
local manifestations of life’s universal motion;
not take it personally, then  --  let it go.
 
 

When this is not done, you continue to fall prey
to that most ludicrous situation of the mind 
labeling a matter in the second reality,
that appears to be occurring outside of itself, 
then criticizing it for its shortcomings, 
while acting oblivious to the larger, patently plain reality of the affair which should embarrass any reasonably intelligent five year old, (for instance):
people continually condemn weather forecasters’ failures to correctly predict tomorrow’s conditions
when they have a lifetime’s experience telling them that this is the norm, and to be expected.
They blame the meteorologists for their inaccurate
forecasts rather than their stupidity for depending on same when they have no reason to expect otherwise.
(There are equally revealing examples wherever you look in man’s second reality: stock market analysts; psychologists; sociologists; political pundits, spokesmen-for-god, and  so on.)
It is part of the mind’s nature to point its 
finger-of-verbal-attention at a shadow in front of it,
and engage in endless speculation  regarding same
while never facing up to the fact that
it is always its own shadow that it contemplates.

.......(A person who finally realizes this 
         receives a new Porsche every year for the rest of their life.) 
 

                                                       J