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Although
science & the National Hot Rod Association will not admit it,
the most distinguishing mark of man is that he is the only creature capable
of: disapproving of himself
--
and
since a modicum of rational reflection readily reveals that such a thing
is not possible, it becomes all the more fascinating, viz:
man
is the sole creature able to pretend that he disapproves of himself,
“Are we perfect? --
certainly not.
Are we trying to hide it? --
no.
Are we striving to reach perfection? --
yes.
Are we idiots? --
I suddenly grow weary of the questions.”
An
ordinary man/mind deals with this undealable game by pulling a fast shuffle,
and
handling it indirectly –
by
expressing his most active disapproval for his fellow creatures,
and
the lives they lead – which are but carbon copies of
him and his --
but
which will at least momentarily,
(as
per tacit, commonly agreed on rules of the game),
shift
the critical spotlight from him to someone else.
A
routinely acceptable psychological explanation for this can be presented
as fast as the words can be typed,
such
as how men having a built in disapproval of themselves and their lives
spurs
them constantly on to improve themselves and the lives they lead,
and
indeed, the less civilized you are, which is to say:
the
less your neurons to hormones ratio is weighted in favor of the former,
the
less disapproval you feel for yourself and your life,
(missionaries
and proselytizers of all stripes are continually faced with the
challenge
of getting the more hormonally centered [the under civilized from their
view] to realize [or at least pretend to] the error of their carefree ways,
and
to recognize their innocent insouciance as a sin,
or
at minimum, unacceptable social guffawism).
The
collective progress of man, that is, the easier and longer makes he his
life,
the
greater appears to be his neurons’ influence in what he does,
at
the expense of his hormones,
(the
words, neurons and hormones herein being employed metaphorically,
in
that the words mean what they normally mean but also more as well),
and
irrepressibly issuing from this natural interaction between the two is:
This
being a necessary facet of the ongoing expansion of civilization,
and
a more survivable existence is an explanation that is as good as any –
--
for man-the-collective --
but
just because mad cow disease is the fad-of-the-month for the herd
does
not preclude a disinterest therein by individual cows here & there.
While
a routinely sustainable case could even be presented that individual men
would not pursue the unsatisfying lives many say they lead, (a distinctly
bothersome job), unless they disapproved of their present style of life,
(the
neighborhood in which they reside, the car they drive, etc);
and
that were not individual men endlessly disapproving of themselves and their
life,
they
would likely not put up with the conditions under which they seemingly
must work to make improvement to their lives, and would quite possibly
revert back to
the
pre-converted state of those less civilized and more hormonally driven
– still,
this
sort of reasonably sounding exposition does not bar a few people
born
with an anomalous neuron/hormone ratio from having a hunger for a
better
explanation and understanding of the human game.
If
you are not trying to get-ahead in life, (that is: gain wealth,
power or reputation),
why
put up with what a man must who does pursue such?!
In
other words, for instance: if you have no interest whatsoever in tattoos,
why
would you undergo the annoyance and inconvenience of
having
them applied to you -- in invisible
ink? --
for
that is precisely what a man who wants-to-see-what-going-on is doing
each
and every time he passively tolerates what his natural born mind
runs
out into consciousness and passes off as -- thought-about-himself.
Or
if you cannot drive, what classification of fool would you be to get up
everyday
and
go to a job you despise only for the sake of saving up enough money to
buy
a new Jaguar? -- (or closer to the nerve ending):
once
you have lived on the planet for twenty or so years,
plenty
of time to have realized that the thoughts that normally issue from your
brain and everyone else’s, expert and layman alike,
do
not begin to answer or even touch on what you want to know,
(which
for a long time you do not know what it is),
what
kind of idiot does it make you to be to continue entertaining these thoughts
like a gracious host -- a gracious host whose intelligence
has fallen in the punch bowl;
what
sort of mind continues to go over and over the statement:
“Two
and two is not five. Two and two is not five. Two and
two is not five”
before
accepting it and moving on to something new?
How
long will a man born with the potential eye for the secret, better-things-in-life
tolerate -- without deadly, get-out-of-town-scrutiny of
the
endless disapproval of himself and the life he leads flowing automatically
from what initially seems to be his own mind -- that is:
It
now becomes impossible to verbally describe beyond this point;
all
that can be profitably said, hinted to the few with that CertainHunger
is:
this
in no manner can be proven, nor even directly shown to the mind,
but
the few can be safely assured that if you will just repeat the words to
yourself
with
the guarantee that as irrational and impossible as they sound --
they be so --
and
you keep your inner head, curiously and openly cocked – it
will finally hit you -- the absolutely
insanity and true impossibility of:
Everything
of which an ordinary man/mind can be conscious and think about
denies
this -- outright -- on-the-spot refutes it;
feels,
by its own experience at the very instant it hears the idea, that it is
not so,
for
at that very moment the thing in a man’s brain that is clearly
him thinking,
is
thinking about the many ways in which he does disapprove of the
things he does amidst the life he leads.
Put
into words thus,
a
normal mind reading them will naturally and predictably dismiss them totally;
from
every ordinary person’s brain/mind issues disapproval for the person,
and
the life they lead;
all
it must do is stop for a second to reflect on it, and an ordinary person/mind
instantly realizes it is so,
but
if you have the extraordinary potential to see just a teeny bit further
than
the
collective of humanity, you will one day suddenly realize that
this
idea is the one which is insane and impossible.
It
cannot really be talked about, (in spite of the instant) --
it
can only be privately realized by you-of-the-few -- entirely in your
own brain --
an
entirely extraordinary and uncalculated event in
humanity’s
normally printed dance card and mental table game.
No one to this-kind-of-activity-born can continually say to their self:
Just
keep repeating this question, over and over to yourself
as
you keep a lookout with keen eye/I:
and
while the query would sound valid to the six billion ordinary people of
this planet,
if
the few persist in its inquiry,
one
day its total impossibility --- and
what is revealed just behind it –
will
drop an atomic funk bomb on your brain and you will then internally stroll
from
the
valley of foolishness concerning the lives which ordinary men & minds
lead.
“Are
we perfect? -- certainly not.
Are
we striving mightily to become perfect? -- what do I
look like – a fool?!”
J
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