JAN’S FRESH REAL NEWS
                           © 2001: Jan Cox
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September 8, 2001.
 
 
 
 

                    ANOTHER STORY FROM ANOTHER WORLD
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In one galaxy, there is a man who owns a theatre
and has no control over the movies shown;
he holds clear deed to the property;
owes no one for the equipment;
has his own taste in film --  and yet:
he does not control the movies that are played there;
they are determined by The Mob.
No one knows precisely who The Mob is,
at least no one publicly admits so:
this is difficult to accept
for how can they be forcing the theatre owner to run
what they select if he does not have enough contact with
one of them sufficient for him to form some notion of exactly
what kind of figures make up The Mob.
It beleaguers belief --
yet the theatre owner (and all like him) insist it be so:
that he is forced --  day & night  --
to run movies that he does not select;
but this situation, (as sorry as may already seem),
is not the worst of it,
for with this theatre owner  --   film is the focal point of his life.
Notwithstanding the essential physical needs,
he finds film the most significant activity in which
men can involve themselves;
as is not uncommon, he believes that features of man’s culture
can deserve supremacy over all in life but the
physical necessities, and in his case --  movies.
He thinks that movies have the power to inspire & instruct,
and do have a direct influence on the lives men lead,
and the beliefs they hold;
thus it seems such a shame that
he has such a love-for & faith-in movies,
and yet has no control over which ones are shown in his theatre ---   because of  --   The Mob.

This situation gives rise to troubles beyond the walls of just his theatre, for it appears that The Mob controls what is shown in
everyone’s screening room, so when one theatre owner makes a
negative comment about what is running in a neighbor’s place,
the neighbor, having no control over what is being played in his
establishment, cannot rationally defend what is therein going on,
and has but frustration to call on,
thus on that planet, you find incessant sniping between
the theatre owners;
one criticizes what is running in a second’s house;
the second, not being responsible for what’s on, even perhaps,
not approving of it himself,
responds to the criticism with a defense that is thoroughly hollow --  for he has no real defense for what is being shown in
his theatre, and indeed really needs none,
in that he is not responsible for it  --  The Mob is,
but as noted: no owner admits to knowing who The Mob is,
thus they cannot lay the responsibility where it belongs,
and free themselves from the endless cycle of
criticism-into, vacuous-defense-from-frustration, and back again.
Having no one to blame for this out of control situation --
they blame one another,
and in private, at certain times, most also blame themselves
for not being able to do anything about the flicks that are shown in the place which they then feel needs defending;
each theatre owner thinks to himself that if he was in control of what plays in his house, he would never select a film that
he would later feel needed defending  --   but alas:
the situation is not like that.

Truth is, “alas” does not normally intrude into this
particular situation on that particular world
for what has happened is that almost all theatre owners
pretend to ignore what is going on,
after all: if you cannot do anything about a situation
why make it worse by endlessly talking about it;
all such predicaments are made more palatable by
pretending they do not exist  --  hey :
if movies themselves can create a pleasurable world of
make believe  --  why not those who run them?

 
(That is the end of that story, but there is this curious footnote:
no one has any knowledge of The Mob actually ever
                          causing anyone any harm.)

 
                                                J
 
 
 
 
 

Every school, method, teaching, Way & discipline proffered as a means to achieve awakening
                              is a product of the same company that produces sleep (The Mob).
 
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