June
1, 2001.
An accretion of ye’r day’s News;
pertinent the question suggested as exemplary entry point in your investigation
of the brain’s secondary
activities, (scil.): “Why do
men talk so much?”
Why does the brain make men
talk so much about matters that observably have nothing directly to do
with his survival;
speech that is clearly useless
-- yet is incessant. Why?
For what purpose?
The brain makes men talk so much
in an ongoing attempt to make their non essential, secondary activities
sound more important than everyone knows they are.
The human brain is unapproachably
the most intelligent operation known to man, and it does not squander its
energy
any more than does any form
of life.
The functions it endlessly performs
outside of consciousness
are absolutely essential for
your minute to minute survival,
and it processes information,
and makes life-&-death decisions
at a speed and level of complexity
that is without competition.
But it does more than just oversee
the physiological essentials;
it produces pictures & accompanying
words in men’s heads of
things that do not physically
exist on this planet,
and of activities not imperative
to simple survival thereon.
The operation of the brain which
men call consciousness,
and which their mouth refers
to as, “their mind”
has caused men to invent
-- Civilization;
being civilized,
and all that goes with it.
Nothing about civilization is
literally necessary for
a man’s physical survival,
but without his participation
therein, a man is less then fully human.
Without the brain leading man
to concoct Civilization
he would never have begun to
talk,
but now that he has --
he seems driven to over do it.
Everywhere do all people talk
more than serves any useful purpose,
and far beyond even the meaningless
social chit chat that helps hold
together Civilization.
No, men talk way beyond that -- AND
in a style most distinctive.
The brains of Civilized men spend
little time directing them to talk about the several matters essential
for survival,
but rather to talk mostly about
affairs that simply offer distraction to
the brain’s consciousness,
and in spite of the brain being
the creator of all such activities,
thus obviously aware of their
non critical nature,
nevertheless it makes men talk
about them incessantly to the contrary,
as though the quantity of talk
will compensate for the lack of quality of what is being talked about,
and that the avalanche of verbal
noise will in fact make men
forget about the non serious
nature of those trinkets of civilization they are normally required to
treat quite seriously.
(Examples are so ubiquitous
as to need no specific detailing:
sports; politics; wealth; religion;
fame; movies; success; gossip,
you name it, and if you can’t
touch it -- it belongs on the list.)
If every cow in your local herd
says/decides that a certain newly minted secondary matter is important-&-serious
-- then it becomes so.
…until everyone forgets about
it…
...and something new again becomes
so.
That is how life in the city
operates, and everyone knows it,
but few men are issued brains
which either: are able to look at
this head-on, or else want to, (take
your pick, the result is the same).
If you have the desire, it is
relatively easy to see that men are made to
incessantly talk about non essential
activities in which they engage
to make them sound more significant
than everyone knows they are,
but what is trickier to grasp
is that the supreme manifestation of this
is the brains in ordinary men
making them talk incessantly about what they refer to as --
themselves -- for the
same purpose.
Do you get it already?
Do you see where this is going?
Must it be laid out in any more
verbal detail?
What mental distraction, what
secondary trinket do men talk about
far more than any other?
-- themselves.
Even when politics is apparently
the subject,
people in a conversation spend
most of their words on themselves:
“What I
think the President should do,” “How I
feel congress should vote,” “Who I
want to see elected”, and so on in any area you like.
Ponder: Why does the brain make
men talk so much about what the brain makes them call their “self?”
Remember: Quantity over quality?
Quantity substituting for lack
of quality -- or how about:
Quantity attempting to compensate
for lack of ANYTHING
THERE?!
The funniest statement that ever
gets uttered in this universe occurs
every time your brain drives
you to refer to something non physical as belonging to "you."
"Yes, this is mine: my mind
-- my thoughts. My and mine."
Go ahead and
be done with it: say the ultimate words: “My my.”
He who understands the humor in this
understands all that man can.
J
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