Men live in twin worlds: of action and of information;
the world of action is man’s first reality (the physical one),
and the world of information is his second, intangible reality,
and realizing for yourself the validity of this working model  --
grasping how the latter supports the former in vital interests,
but can also whirl away  --  virtually disconnected therefrom,
is of inestimable wealth to a man driven to get a personal and totally unplanned
handle on what is going on with life and being a human with thoughts.
 

The first reality is of action only and requires no input of information to do its work;
the hungers experienced therein (for food, sleep and sex) automatically lead a man
to the action which will satisfy the hunger without the need for any information  --
no man must be told how to eat, sleep or screw:
it all occurs via fully programmed instinct,
but the hungers men feel in their second reality of information only,
are never satisfied.
In the first reality: the hunger itself spurs men to take the action that will fulfill it,
while a hunger in the second reality never leads men to anything that will content it.
Action is all there is to man’s first reality,
thus action (eating when hungry) is the answer to all problems in that world;
information is all there is to man’s second reality, and by extended logic
you would expect perforce, that information would be the answer to all problems
in that realm  --  but: no question that exists exclusively in the information reality
has an information solution,
and neither will any action provide such answers (endless engagement in
Holy Communion will never satisfy a supplicant’s hunger, “To know God,”
nor will the writing of any amount of metaphysical verse
ever produce in a poet a conclusive comprehension of, “The Truth,”
[which is to say in both instances]: To understand what is going on with life).
Just as there is no information needed in the world of action,
there is no action possible in the one of information (not useful action:
praying and reading a book are not true actions,
but meaningless collateral movements coincidental to the real aim:
the desire for information).
Men do not read books for the physical movement involved in the turning of pages;
the hunger is not for action but for information;
man’s vague collective assumption that the physical rituals and activities that may be coeval with his search for answers to spiritual, psychological and cultural questions
are in any way actually a vital part there of, collapses upon the slightest investigation.
 

While the totality of man’s first & essential, physical life is one of action,
the entirety of his second, unique-to-him, intangible inner life is one of information,
and while hungers in the first world are always met (or else death occurs),
no hungers in the second one are ever filled:
the action of stomach muscles contracting from hunger
leads to the satisfying action of eating: action begets action:
action begets satisfying action,
but the muscles of the mind constricting from its hunger to know a certain thing, (camouflaged under a thousand different headings of things it says it wants to know) never leads a man to any information that ever proves satisfying:
he is aware that (which is to say: he has the information that) he is hungry
to know a certain thing, and this does cause him to look for it, yet in the second reality, even though having information does breed the seeking of additional information,
it is not the same as in the first reality wherein: action begets action  --
action there begets satisfying action, while in man’s second reality,
no information proves to be satisfying information.
Ordinary thinking blames the quality of the information, saying that men have simply not yet discovered the information that will  be conclusive and fulfilling,
but a man with a keen eye/I can easily see this is not the linchpin in this puzzle;
in the five thousand years men have been recording this hunger to know some difficult-to-precisely-identify thing (the nature of God, The Truth, etc) there is not
the slightest sign of any progress toward its fulfillment (since none is possible),
yet life chooses to make collective man act blind to this clear and present reality.
In the first, physical reality of action, no hunger will lead a normal man into actions detrimental to his survival (his stomach hunger will not direct him to eat
a poisonous plant), and while the literal opposite cannot be said about the second,
hungers natural to that domain do lead men’s minds into consuming ideas which
have no actual nourishment: ideas that are meaningless, vacuous,
totally dependent on self reference for their survival;
going around endlessly in a self fueling circle to nowhere,
(so: you have really been expecting that pinpointing the exact location of
Santa Claus’ abode is merely a matter of time?!)
 

Information about information stuff  --  regardless of how entertaining it may be --
is information about nothing;
the questions that reside there are as meaningless and unsubstantial as are
any answers that may appear there.
There are silent solutions to all first reality questions:
“What should I do about this hunger in my stomach?” --
the non thinking action of instinct will lead you physically to a place
where you will find the answer to your problem (the appropriate food), while in the second reality (one composed wholly of words and their associated mental images) there are not only no answers to any questions  --
the questions themselves are not there,
(not in the sense significant to a man struggling his way through the mental haze),
so  --  based on the special needs of the certain man:
a restatement of something supra: in the second reality of information,
(since all information that men feel they already possess there, is unsatisfying):
all information in the world of information inside man’s mind
can beget only unsatisfying information,
(you may guess and speculate forever, but St. Nick’s actual address
will never be known to you,
[you ride a chicken  --  you always end up at the hen house]).
 

What the certain man is after is information that is not native to
the normal world of information;
the hunger that drives the few (and in a much diluted and unrecognized form,
the many, as in their spiritual, and philosophical pursuits) is for information  --
explanatory information about the special reality of man that IS of information.
In man’s physical reality of action: actions speak for themselves,
(no one questions why men eat or sleep),
but in his intangible reality of information: nothing speaks for itself –
a man’s action of fending off a tiger, needs no explanation:
everyone who sees the action occur, understands fully what happened,
but what goes on in the information jungle is not understood by anyone  --
everything there cries out for explanation  --  and none exists,
(in the land of illusory rodents: rats never rat on themselves).
 
 

On one planet, some creatures confuse: discover with: create.
 
 

SYMBOLISM KEY:
The city: the operations of the brain that is man's ordinary mind.
The father & son, the partners: man's on going, internal neural conversation:
                            the brain's cortex both speaking & hearing itself speak.
Civilization: reflection of the brain's state of being firmly under city control.
Hormones & neurons: the nervous system's silent operations and the brain's verbal ones.
The plains : the normally unused areas of the brain outside the city.
Local reality: how city minds conceive things to be;  universal reality: how things are.
The train: the generally predictable flow of an ordinary man's life.
The king: the naturally dominant part of man's mind   --   the people: the remainder.
The collective, the herd: ordinary humanity mentally (non pejorative)
The rebel, the certain man: a person struggling for freedom from the city mind (aka: mystic).