JAN'S
DAILY NEWS
Getting To The Bottom
Of It Since 1898
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PRESS CLIPPINGS
FROM PLACES WHERE PEOPLE ARE NO LONGER HARD PRESSED
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July
13, 2002
©
2002:
JAN COX
“There
is no doubt about it! No sir!”
“About what?”
“You
know.”
Whatever
it is you are talking about: if it cannot be physically measured,
it
is but words; entertaining ones perhaps -- inspiring even --
but still,
there
is nothing whatever to the matter but words:
the
things men’s minds use to present its dreams.
Man
is made confused as a group;
you
can only get straightened out privately.
Mind is awakened via language -- then by the same tool, made drowsy.
City
Headline: “Governor announces that the money received from the
tobacco
company lawsuit settlement will be used to promote the state’s tobacco
crop,” and this sort of thing drives men’s minds to near madness: “The
irony of it all!” --
but
such matters are not mere irony –
the
whole purpose for the word & concept is to cover up man’s realization
of
something
else that is going on.
In
no satire or criticism is creativity found,
and
where there is no creativity -- there is no understanding.
Between
the push/pull of what humans call genes and circumstances,
man's
thoughts & emotions get played like a cheap accordion.
Jurisprudence
makes specific note that “self serving” statements of an accused or defendant
are not evidence in a court of law -- but why stop there –
why
confine it to a public building when you can apply it to your mind’s
private
comments to you about you.
There
are but two types of non technical news possible to report:
the
repetition of what you have heard (gossip), and that which you know
from
your own investigation of man’s inner world.
“Is life an upper or a downer?”
“Your asking the question answers it for you.”
“Can men change or not?”
“Your asking the question answers it for you.”
”Is there any doubt about it at all?”
“Not a bit.”
Contrary
to the common notion that “the really important stuff is hidden from man”
– everything is right out in the open: problem is: you are standing
wayyyy too close to your mind’s meaningless analysis of it.
Those
who make economic predictions are people who got badly burned
making
religious ones.
“Yes, my motto has always been:
Having horses to
switch is how you survive uncontrollable streams,
(which in life they all are, don’t you know).”
Only
empty boxes are impressed by other empty boxes.
“Hey
-- don’t take it personally.”
--
“How else can it help me.”
One
man says: “My trick is that while I do nothing except what I am forced
to do,
I
always speak as though it is by my own choosing; it is really a most useful
trick.”
“On whom?”
-- “Hey -- whom said that?”
Says one man: “For me: what was once deadly-serious is now just deadly.”
"There is no doubt about it! Not a bit sir!”
J
.......One
man still remembers The Great Shut Up
Scare of 1985