May
25, 2001.
CLIP, CLOP:
"TOSS THE COWS A SOP"
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Life walks through man on two
legs;
manifested as: liberal &
conservative; reform & orthodox;
courteous & crude; young
& old.
The first in the above duos is
made to favor change, and the new,
and the second set forth as
defenders of the status quo and tradition.
In no species but man does the
first exist;
no other creature has part of
its population continually engaged in experimentation, and the promotion
of new ways to live;
the one word that describes
the second groups supra is: habit:
beings whose lives consist solely
of behavior dictated by instinct.
In the long haul, (as is obvious),
life pursues paths, tried & true,
and from the frontal lobes down
men live such lives;
all organs do their specific
job, and attempt nothing else.
What physical changes occur
in man are gradual,
and constructively imperceptible:
if the heart believes there
may be a more efficient way to pump blood,
it approaches the possibility
of altering its operations most cautiously,
and will try out same,
slowly by small degrees over a long period of time.
But never does it consider that
one of the options for change would be
to stop pumping blood altogether,
and take up the digestion of food.
Neither it nor any other somatic
entity ever makes moves toward change in their operations that could be
considered radical, or drastic.
Such would be, from any knowledgeable
view -- suicidal.
But in the brain’s world of words
& ideas,
the drive for change is half
the name-of-the-game,
and only an ordinary, cursory
& useless glance at the mind
would cause a person to picture
consciousness as being
a pump for ideas --
which are as fungible as are blood cells.
(Remind yourself that as always,
what is being referred to in these reports is not about matters of
a physical nature, but of those which have no tangible existence, and are
solely products of man’s mind.)
The life of this world depends
on the breath of change,
but men do not normally look
at the arena of ideas in this fashion;
what each ordinary man
sees from his individual, subjective view
is a constant struggle between
ideas which his mind says are true, correct & proper, and those which
his thoughts declare to be
lies, errors & improprieties,
but his mental processes never
grasp the salient fact that without this apparent, constant confrontation
between what mentally IS,
and what, COULD
BE --
there would be no sustainable life OF the mind,
(concerning non-physical matters not directly pertinent to survival).
But even in this more relaxed
area of the mind, (as opposed to
the strict regimentation of life-in-the-liver),
the constant change necessary
for its health & survival
does not occur instantly, or
abruptly,
but takes place via the endless
wrestling match & tug-of-war
between the two legs on which
life strides through the life of man.
The changes come about from
the never ending pushing-&-pulling
that goes on in all areas of
man’s mentally based, second reality,
from religion to politics; from
art to etiquette,
changes whose media are groups
identified & named by this same mind as: liberal & conservative:
reform & orthodox; young & old, et al.
These confrontational divisions
are commonly pronounced to be manifestations of social, or economic conditions,
or of educational backgrounds,
but the only conditions in play
here are the conditions of instinct;
but change -- even talk
of change -- being such a foreign concept
to all forms of observable life,
(including man, from consciousness
down),
the permanent situation is never
seen directly for what it is:
a permanent situation --
but rather is viewed by ordinary
minds as a temporary state of affairs,
a, struggle-for-the-truth
which will presently
bear fruit, and come to an end,
(with no one seeming to notice
that this “temporary state-of-affairs”
has been going on uninterrupted
for the length of recorded history.)
This struggle between the forcibly
drafted teams of:
liberal vs. conservative; reformer
vs. the orthodox,
and the young vs. their elders
is not THE,
"game" -- but is the field upon which the game is played.
The game is not ever going to
reach a resolved conclusion;
the aim of the game is not to
come to an end,
but rather -- just the
opposite.
The purpose of the game is not
for one of the two teams to win,
but for their endless struggle
to keep the game forever alive.
Inside your own head is such
a game being played,
and do such opposing factions
continually confront one another.
There are thoughts that are
run onto your mental playing field
from the unknown sidelines which
are liberal, youngish,
and all in favor of something
new; of doing things differently,
but from the opposing bench
are sent on thoughts that are
interested only in protecting
the yardage already gained;
the conservative, safety-minded,
tradition-bound team
is there to defend the status
quo and the history that they believe
is responsible therefor,
and neither team is “right,”
and the other wrong;
they must both be constantly
on the field for the game to go on;
do you want the game to stop
in your head -- in your
life?!
Do you want the consciousness
of a warthog?!
(Perhaps
some of you bricklayers & drummers should pass on this question.)
Those thoughts which automatically
appear in your head,
and whose presence you passively
accept as constituting your
“mind,” and consciousness
are programmed to forever be
limited to sets of opposing teams,
(as described), along with a
natural attraction to external manifestations thereof, (other minds’ versions
of the game).
This is how the thoughts that
make up the mind operate,
survive, and thrive;
by life walking through man,
first one leg down, (young, liberal reformer),
then replaced by the other leg:
older, orthodox conservative;
one, two;
one, two;
one, two;
the mind’s view is normally
of two.
But there is a third.
J
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