July
6, 2001.
Every summer the father &
son hold an outdoor festival at their place, with the expected food, and
music,
but this year they added an
opening speaker,
who just walked on stage, let’s
listen.
“Thoughts
are only about two totally different things:
stuff,
and other thoughts,
and failure to hold a constant
awareness of the distinction
will cause you to go blind,
and develop boils around your uranus.
When you are hungry, you have
thoughts about food;
once you are full, you have
thoughts about the waiter’s attitude:
the first is thoughts about
stuff,
about which changes can be made:
(you order some food);
the second is thoughts about
thoughts,
an area in which attempted change requires an advanced degree in idiocy.
If your shrimp is served too
spicy you can wipe off the sauce;
if you had thoughts that deemed
the waiter’s attitude unacceptable,
you can glare at him; complain
to the management; short tip him,
even leave him a note of constructive
suggestions, but none of the above, or anything else you can do
will change the thoughts you
had about the waiter’s attitude.
Thoughts are only about two completely
separate places:
out-there,
and in-here,
and failing to keep this distinction
always in mind
will cause you to grow up to
be just as stupid as you are now.
When you are hot, you have thoughts
about air conditioning;
once you are cool, you have
hot thoughts about the
price gouging policies of monopolistic
energy suppliers;
the first is thoughts about
stuff out there,
about which changes can be made:
you turn the air conditioner on;
the second is thoughts about
thoughts: the land-of-the-free --
-- the home-of-the-mildly-deranged.
Animals, (not that we would want
to BE as dumb & content as they are!)
only have thoughts about, stuff,
and
about,
out-there,
(which of course is WHY
they are so smart & dumb);
while humans have risen to their
extraordinary & enviable level
by their capacity to also have
thoughts about
the two other things: thoughts,
and, in-here.
Consciousness in man would serve
no purpose did it not produce in him, thoughts about the -- in-here,
and
-- thoughts-about-other-thoughts.
Without this double-threat-talent,
man would enjoy no arts,
no entertainments, no academia,
no religion, no politics,
and worst of all: there would
be no: back-biting & gossip,
nor meaningful public debate
of the issues,
nor an individual’s ability
to privately reflect thereon.
Hidden from the rheumy eyes/I’s
of those
six billion unfortunate souls
currently being held in mental detention,
is the existence of, Secret
Cosmic Knowledge.
If a house is on fire, both
the privileged, and deprived look,
and have the thought: “That
house is on fire”;
a thought about stuff --
the house –
and obviously a thought about
stuff
--
out-there
-- outside the thinker,
but the mentally constrained,
(just-plain-folks),
have a collateral thought regarding
the owner of the burning house
against whom they have a grudge,
(“Serves the son of a bitch right!”).
Thus I point out to you, that
which is plain & obvious,
and indeed, that which no one,
(upon sincere, momentary consideration),
can deny, which is that:
everybody, sees
and, knows
what is -- going-on-in-life,
for what is really, going-on-in-life
is right out therein the visible world
for everyone to
see: (you cannot hide a hurricane),
but what is not automatically
plain-&-apparent to the human,
what-cha-call-it
is the fact that what is not
-- out-there,
and which is -- stuff
,
but rather is -- in-here,
and is -- thoughts,
about those things nothing can
be seen,
(since you cannot look inside
yourself),
and about them, nothing can
be known,
(perforce, perforce --
supra perforce).
But the brains of those poor
dears presently suffering from that
world wide mental affliction
are unable to make this distinction,
and alas -- must
content themselves with being the puppet government which runs, the-world-of-stuff
-- out-there,
(but it is not all: work,
work, work for these folks,
in their spare time they engage
in the various pastimes that their
thoughts, [limited as they be],
have created: [movies, religion,
novels, politics, cogent criticism,
etc];
it falls the burden of the privileged
few
to keep alive
the all inclusive view,
whereby -- some where
-- at all times,
there is at least one human
brain holding the real time awareness that all thoughts are only about:
stuff-out-there,
or about: other-thoughts,
which exist only -- in-here
-- for
everybody.”
He began walking toward the wings
as he delivered his final words:
“What a responsibility for these
select few: oblique noblesse oblige,"
then with a rousing cry of:
"Tempus
goobers!”
he was gone,
and the first band rolled on
stage.
J
Those boogying in the isles
are people who have extended the frontiers and no longer, think-about-thoughts,
but rather about
where thoughts come from.
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