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On
one world, to help the advanced beings advance even further,
life
provided them with a system of communication whereby
one
creature can say something completely non sensible,
and
the others will apparently still understand what he meant.
Reality
is not enough for humans, and
that
indeed is
the true definition of the breed.
One
man had a peculiar dislike for having to go to sleep at night:
he
hated his thoughts being even more out of his control than usual.
(His
brother pointed out the bright side, that at least in that
non
conscious condition a man has an acceptable excuse for
not
being in a state of full, willfully directed consciousness –
a
comment which, for an instant, favorably caught the man’s attention
-- but
he
quickly recovered, noting:
“No,
I have had access to that same excuse during the day light hours
for
my entire existence;
just
open your eyes and ears to the normal human activity all around you --
you
are being continually, though indirectly assured that
what
is going on in your thoughts is well within feasible realm (almost as though):
if
you are human and you were able to think it -- Hey! it
could be --
especially
if it pleases your brain to believe
that it could."
"No,”
concluded the man in response to his sibling's proffered proviso,
“I
understand that the activity of mind I find so personally distasteful
is
man’s normal one, and found by everyone else to be tolerable,
but
a lifetime of struggling with it makes it clear to me that something in
my brain
will
never accept any explanation or excuse for its dominant presence
in
the head of my nervous system."
"I
do not mind being me, and I do not mind being externally unremarkable,
but
what, by my nature I cannot take
is
the
automatic facet of my neural activity that makes it possible for me to
think
and say such things as this.”
Reality
is not enough for normal humans,
nor
to them can this be cold-water-clear.
The
certain man is chafed not by physical reality, nor by his fellow creatures’
natural
dismissal of such as an, adequate-explanation-of-things;
even
those whose interest seems superficially therein
(physicists,
biologists) yet believe there are intangible forces
inhabiting
and influencing man (psychological, sociological);
Reality is all there is --
Reality
not
being enough for man is what gets non starving humans out of bed
in
the morning before they have fully exhausted the pleasures of repose;
were
reality enough for man, civilization would not exist:
no
culture, no music, no literature, no art, no education;
all
that externally distinguishes man comes directly from the fact that it
is not,
so
none but the pathological can fault with it find,
but
for the certain man seeking that certain something
that
is not to be found in the public market place,
no
matter how early he arises, no matter what books he reads,
and
no matter what course of instruction he pursues, taught by his peers,
even
with him that same strange song remains true --
This
is the unrealized cause of all myths, religions,
and
metaphysical musing of all stripes,
and
is ultimately the substance behind the shadow-statement:
“All
that a certain man knows that is useful to him -- he made up.”
“Father,
does this mean that I should just be satisfied with physical reality,
and
let it go at that?”
“The
question is: can
you ?”
“It
would seem apparently possible.”
“But then you come to this:
is your mental concept of, ‘apparently’ part of physical reality
or not?”
The
very sort of things which would drive normal men crazy
(if
they tried to think about them)
are
the keys to freedom for the few.
J
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