CON JOBS, EXPOSÈS, 
             AND THAT WARM COZY FEELING
 
 
 

Humans love exposès; they enjoy being conned --
                      --  with one exception.
Even when it has cost them money, or more,
men relish learning that the leading companies in a particular industry have conspired to keep prices higher than they would have been otherwise,
or that a governmental agency’s information department consistently gives laughably erroneous
answers to citizens’ serious questions, 
or that a certain hospital has a continuing record of performing the wrong operations on patients
in their care; 
the list is as long and varied as history itself, 
and includes every facet of the human experience 
from science, religion, and academia 
to politics, finance and the building trades. 
Scandal sheets are always best sellers,
and muckrakers are welcome wherever they go --
                        --  with one exception.
 
 

No non thinking part of any person’s body 
likes to be fooled;
it is too dangerous  --  can even be deadly.
But the thinking thing truly enjoys being conned --  IF
the con gets exposed;
(you can’t enjoy being snookered 
if you never realize that you have been!).
Humans --  in their minds --  like to be conned – AND
to have it exposed to them.
As be the norm with sapien type homos,
they may say otherwise:
a man can speak condemnably about a politician’s uncovered shenanigan’s at taxpayer’s expense 
while furiously grinning like an envious hyena,
or shaking his head in favorable bemusement
even as his words disparagingly detail the overnight fortune made by some stockbroker’s illegal activities.

Humans enjoy hearing about a good con job; 
they will unwittingly nod their appreciation of 
a well executed swindle, (the cruder the better,
it might be noted) --
                            with one exception.
 
 
 

Men’s holy books blatantly, even gleefully 
reveal the frauds and cons that their own gods have subjected them to --  and yet they hold no grudge.
Is there no limit to the intellectual deceit 
humans will abide; 
no boundaries to the humiliation they will 
mentally endure as these endless frauds are 
endlessly exposed?!        Obviously not!
                        --  with one exception.

Man’s mind observably, and undeniably
accepts being conned as a way of life,
and beyond any doubt, 
enjoys having it revealed to him -- 
but in one area this ceases to be so; 
there is one matter in the life of the mind that 
it considers sacrosanct  --  itself.
Man’s mind will gladly believe that his leaders,
friends and family have and will deceive him,
and unflinchingly accept that even his gods
mislead him and conspire against him,
but the mind has no interest-in, nor tolerance-for
the slightest hint that it might be engaged in 
similar activity. 
When you finally realize what life is
this is understandable,
and seen to be part of the mind’s necessary position in the overall arrangement of things;
good for the herd, but not at all helpful to an individual cow trying to develop non collective sight.
A cow seeking to see-for-himself has but a single hurdle: his mind’s natural inability to focus on itself,
and ever see itself in any light that is not cast by a 
total snow job.

And there it is  -- THE BIG CON  --
the one that is never exposed; 
the one that the mind has no interest in being exposed, 
or even investigated.
 
 

A tree may not ever be able to escape the rain,
but it might see thru the con that tells it that --
                               it can walk.

                                       J
 
 
 
 
 

…have you ever seen an enlightenedpine?
 

      .........it is not your enemy..............and it won't trick you.