August
1, 2001.
BUILDING BACKWARDS ON A GRAND SCALE
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(While note has been recent made
of employing reverse engineering in the effort to alter consciousness’
routine running;
ordinary life also makes use
of this approach
on a widespread & unrecognized
level so as to maintain man’s
current state of consciousness.
Today’s News considers this
matter.
Be forewarned & keep in
mind that the aim of the reporting below
is not to castigate the examples
used to cover this story --
they are merely the visible
manifestations OF the real story.)
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The social sciences are said
to be man’s attempt to understand
the uniqueness of his own nature
-- his world of thought,
(as contrasted to hard science’s
efforts to comprehend
the nature of the physical world),
but deeper down, that is not so:
the purpose of the social sciences
is not to explain man’s thinking,
(and resultant behavior), but
to rationalize them;
to make them both appear to
have some logical basis
even when their activity seems
irrational & pathological.
Viz. life did not have man invent
psychotherapy for the purpose of “curing” irrationality in men’s thinking,
but rather to make such irrationality seem somehow, “understandable.”
Hard science attempts to explain
what comes out of the ground;
the soft ones, what comes out
of man’s mouth.
These social sciences, (Psychology,
Sociology, Anthropology, Theology, History, Literature & The Arts),
each offers explanations of man
which are constructed purely
of thought --
and put into forms that collective-man’s
thoughts find logical;
they explain nothing – but rationalize
everything.
Driven by & constructed
purely of thought,
they struggle to come up with
scenarios wherein ideas men have expressed, which at first sound irrational
& inexplicable,
can, upon reflection, appear
to have some cause which is comprehensible TO the thoughts of the
person
thinking about the question.
Thoughts deceive man by
making him believe, (for instance),
that Archeology is the study of something real
since he can touch physical
artifacts he says are a part there of,
and attach appropriately seeming
dreams:
”Just look at what the images
on this pottery suggest to us about those people's intricate social interactions,”
and those involved in Theology point to the tangibly recorded conflicts
caused by men everywhere historically holding different ideas of god
as proof that a deity of some
sort or another is a fait accompli,
and History is always there
to play its part as the primo, back-builder
by “finding” new facts previous
to any incident that now better explains its occurrence.
In a looser universe, these descriptions
of certain intellectual activity would appear obese, for what is going
on is much simplier,
(at least for a man in the position
to, look-up-life’s-skirt);
through Anthropology, Archeology,
Political Science and History,
men are not trying to understand
their cultural lives,
and via Psychology, Sociology,
Philosophy and Theology,
they are not striving to understand
their inner ones;
what is driving it all is the
thoughts in man
relentlessly struggling to come
to an understanding of themselves,
and it is from this basis that
man’s thoughts –
operating in the guise of these
humanistic sciences --
produce -- NOT discoveries
that explain the nature of man --
but rather rationalizations
for their ignorance of themselves.
Men’s thoughts invented the idea
of an all knowing god
to make themselves not feel
so bad,
in that their ignorance of themselves
is somewhat ameliorated by
the fact that they are smart
enough to be able to conceive of a being
that is smarter than themselves,
and men’s thoughts made up the
science of Psychology so that therein they could produce statistics &
case histories to support the view that we all, (after all), are a bit
nutty & irrational, ("It is normal"),
and thought conjured up the
concept of History as the last-ditch, catch-all defense for its own ignorance
of itself
by being able to there through,
look backwards and locate past events that are undeniably responsible for
present ones,
(events now plainly out of reach
and unable to respond,
just as neither can God, nor
a man’s subconsciously suppressed
traumas).
And of practical value to note:
thought engages in this not
so much for the sake of, “justification”
as for, rationalization --
in the sense of not simply trying to excuse,
but rather to make that which
appears in need of excusing --
-- verbally comprehensible.
A man says his dead mother appears
in his bedroom at night,
and someone’s thought will explain
this as being caused by man’s
fear of death,
and if a man has social or economic
ideas at odds with his peers
someone will have a thought
that will point to his unorthodox views
as being an understandable result
of his particular
childhood conditions,
and if a man studies a situation
of conflicting political ideologies
his thoughts will proffer potential
explanations of why one man might adopt a conservative position while another
does a liberal one,
but the studious thoughts are
not actually making analytical comments on the ideas of other men, but
are in fact struggling to make some sense of their own reactions TO the
other men’s ideas --
and it is always thus:
thought -- that uses you
as its medium --
speaks aloud in your head, in-favor-of,
or opposed-to
these-&-those miscellaneous
other thoughts it hears about,
but its apparent weighing of
some outside sourced idea,
and ultimate acceptance or rejection
thereof
is not about the other thought
-- but is about itself.
No matter how well verbally dressed
it may be,
ostensible, academic analysation
of whether
the idea of reincarnation has
been totally discredited,
or in fact, has an objective
basis -- the pertinent fact is that,
non sense always remains non
sense;
that which thought entirely
conjured
cannot ever later be objectively
comprehended BY thought;
zero multiplied by a million
remains zero --
looking -- no matter how sincerely
-- for possible alternative sums
is a sport for fools –
yet every man’s thoughts are
programmed for it.
A bare fist version could be
thus presented:
as long as thought does not
understand its own nature
it will invent imaginary
institutions outside of itself
which it then pretends to understand,
(or professes itself capable
of ultimately understanding),
as though if arguing long enough
over whether the Invisible Man
walks about naked, or wears
clothes which are also invisible,
[or if Jesus rose from the dead
in two days, or three,
or if these miracle-producing
bones are really Buddha’s or not,
or if Marx’s best explanations
of society were actually pilfered]),
under this normal circumstance,
human thought that is not
talking about something that
came out of the ground
is always talking about something
that came out of human thought,
and inasmuch as collective human
thought does not at all
have any understanding of its
own nature,
its understanding of the things
it has made up,
and is subsequently forced to
pretend it doesn’t remember making up
is less than none;
the entire notion that there
is actually something there to
BE studied in: Psychology, Theology,
Literature, etc --
-- and that progress
therein is being constantly realized --
could figuratively be said to
be funny -- were it not so sad;
insane! --
were it not embraced by all ordinary men;
unbelievable! --
were it not so plainly necessary TO the lives of ordinary men, (if
the overall status quo is to be maintained).
Those few, outside the mainstream
of mental ordinariness are faced with the additional challenge of confronting
a situation wherein a cloak has been thrown on top of an already existing
one that covers the hard outlines of unadorned reality -- reality,
sans thought’s commentary;
those who have a thought residing
in them that vibrates
in tune & true pitch with
the thought that says
man’s thought-machine can operate
more efficiently --
and more pleasingly to its particular
human host -- than it does,
must not only stumble around
for damn near a life time of constant struggle to finally see through the
nothingness of,
Emperor-Thought’s-New-Clothes
-- but on top of that –
then have to keep pushing on
until they recognize the nakedness
of their seeing through thought’s
nothingness in the first place.
Knuckles
bared: brass additions, in place:
it is either: a double-barreled,
uphill march – or,
(looked at from the opposite
direction),
a half-a-barrel, downhill slide.
You either work like serious
hell studying the thoughts of man
to finally realize that the
only things that really mean anything
to a man’s existence come from
the ground,
and that everything else
-- that comes from men’s minds --
-- no matter how enjoyable
& fascinating they may be --
have no meaning, (outside themselves)
-- or,
you shoot for the short cut,
and start shooting at the one
doing all the shooting to begin
with.
If a man struggling for the hidden
understanding
is called a, Warrior,
then his success comes ultimately
from a self inflicted wound:
he shoots himself in the foot
-- but in his case
this is not the usual act of
cowardice, but one of supreme bravery.
Anyone without a full, but impassionate
personal realization of
everyone’s unconditional and
unchangeable ignorance about
any & all matters that did
not literally come out of the dirt of this planet,
is still lost at the starting
line,
but if you can taste the tangible
texture of the,
present-at-every-moment-in-your-head
reality
behind the above dots on your
computer screen,
you have someplace to actually
begin;
something that the rightly wired
person responds to
when they hear it described,
and toward which they can then
aim their attention & efforts.
Children,
captive animals, and machinery-in-transition
will
all drive you nuts if they are not given something to do to hold their
attention,
and
of course, the above three examples are all metaphors for thought,
but
thought-in-the-few can never satisfy itself by merely turning its attention
to things that exist only because of it having invented them:
that
is what keeps ordinary men’s minds “sane” and in-place,
but
drives the few to the outskirts of Bonkers.
A man who is actually wired to
be satisfied with nothing less than,
knowing-everything-for-himself,
will not be aided an iota by
anything in Psychology, Philosophy,
Literature, History, Political
Science, Economics, Theology, Mysticism,
or by anything else that exists
only by virtue of
human thought thinking it up;
it may well be enjoyable, but
recognizing it for what it is
is the necessary first step
to eventually
falling completely down, and
injuring yourself quite seriously.
Ho tally! -- ho tally!
Build
backwards -- but knowingly.
J
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