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JAN’S NON STATE SANCTIONED MENTAL LOTTO
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June 4, 2002                                                                 © 2002: JAN COX
 
 
 

In life there are those who construct and those who create;
those who produce something tangible and those who do not;
those who turn out things that are useful, (always physical),
and those who create things that are entertaining, (non physical);
the difference between  constructing and creating is clear,
but through disinterest therein, it is commonly blurred in men’s minds.
The first group are builders and manufacturers, putting together
already existing materials in ways that physically benefit man;
the second group are entertainers, creating stories out of but air
that give men’s minds something to think about when they are not building,
and constructing.
Constructors produce things that serve man’s physical needs and comfort;
entertainers likewise serve a need in man, not of the same order as farmers,
and  weavers, but man hungers for mental distraction in addition to food and clothes, thus non tangibly do priests, writers, psychologists, singers & actors provide for man.
 
 

On one planet, in the nascent days of their civilization, as these two groups began to naturally form, and it was realized that one of them produced things that you could see and touch, and the other turned out nothing but words,
they banned the latter, (their civilization soon disappeared, [save for an aberrant few --
                                                               whose numbers were too small to be of any consequence]).
 
 
 
 

You either are self sufficient, or
you depend for your literal survival on constructors, and manufacturers;
people you pay to work on materials in our physical environment,
and then make available for your use;
you are either mentally self sufficient, or else
you depend on other people’s words to entertain and sustain your inner life;
for a normal, civilized man, both of these are in play:
he relies on others to produce his food and shelter;
he relies on others to provide what he thinks about,
(and of course, others rely on others, and all others are totally dependent on whatever life mentally provides for man, but to talk about the matter, we have to arbitrarily jump in some where, and today, this is the where).
 
 

You have your occupation, and from its salary, pay others to provide the things necessary for you to stay alive and be able to pursue your work;
you also have the unwritten, unspecified job of thinking  --  all the time thinking  --

--  about something;
                                                here too, in a fashion unrealized,
                        you pay someone else to provide your mental necessities;
for normal people --  this is proper and expected;
for the irregular few  --  it is poison & the downfall-of-the-universe.
Farmers know how to farm; carpenters know how to carpen,
but nobody out there knows how to think --  not in any creative way –
which at root is supposed to be the distinguishing mark of the second group,
and what they ostensibly furnish for man’s inner life needs;
but ordinary men are not given minds that are either creative,
or have any desire to be --  hardly;
just but listen and all you hear is homogamy and imitation;
all men’s bodies want the same nourishing food,
and all routine men’s minds want the same presently popular thoughts;
for ordinary people: “It’s the healthy thing to do”  --  be mentally just like your neighbor.
 
 
 

On one planet, in the inchoate days of their civilization,
an idea issued from the common mass mind of its creatures,
of an all-wise, supernatural rose which governed their lives,
and for a while, one’s suitability-for and acceptance-by society
was determined by how you answered the question:
“Do you or do you not believe in the existence of the rose?”
until someone noted that if any meaningful question was in order it was:
“Do you not remember from where the very idea ot the rose came?”
This world so prospered that it disappeared from the awareness of other ones.
 
 
 
 

Second Stanza

In your thoughts there are those who construct and those who create;
those thoughts which produce something tangible and those which do not;
those which turn out things that are useful,
(always regarding something in the physical world),
and those which create things that are but entertaining,
(confined always to your inner world);
the difference between  constructing and creating is clear,
but though disinterest therein, it is commonly blurred in men’s awareness.
The first type of thoughts are builders and manufacturers,
planning ways of putting together already existing materials to physically benefit you;
the second kind of thoughts are entertainers,
creating stories out of nothing but sound and imagination,
which give you something to think about
when you are not thinking about building and constructing.
Construction thoughts produce things that serve your physical needs and comfort;
entertainment thoughts likewise serve a need  --  in ordinary men,
but if the distinction between the two is not adamantly clear to you,
along with the dazzling realization of how stridently things are arranged to
keep it from you,
you are reading these words for entertainment,
and not for the purpose of doing anything useful for yourself.
 
 

J








......which is okay, but why delude yourself even further.