A father advised a son: “Bend over and run like a beaver
whenever anyone begins to speak and their opening words are:
‘It pains me to say this about man, but…’  --  Hell!  --
EVERYBODY is disappointed with man  --  except he who understands him;
indeed: to be a leader of men, or a treater of their spiritual & psychological ills demands that you NOT understand him  --   in fact:
the very m.o. by which ordinary people get by for seventy years is:
feigning incomprehension of him.
Perhaps,” he further mused,
“It is not intended that a creature with thoughts ever turn them on himself  --
not at least in any productive fashion  --  not in one that might lead to
a realization of why men continually express disappointment in themselves.

There seems embedded in man’s temperament a dissatisfaction with himself metaphysically that is genetic, and not acquired from experience,
so that whatever he does in his various non physical pursuits of art & intellect,
he never finds adequate;
even if his peers acclaim his work  --  he is never satisfied therewith.
From the mortal perspective: a geologist can enjoy conclusive results to his efforts, but a psychologist, never;
chemists can rest at the end of the day, while poets’ work is never over.

Science is done when a question is answered, a problem solved  --
in every other activity in which men engage, nothing ever gets done  --
which is required for these activities to survive and continue.
As regards every non physical matter that interests men:
thought is always disappointing  --
no thought about any of these affairs can ever be satisfying --
if they are to remain of interest,
and also can he not maintain a continual awareness of the situation
without a fatal blow thereto.

To understand the material world:
what you think & say about it must match what you see and touch,
while the (quote) understanding men commonly claim they have of their psychological/spiritual/cultural world rests on the opposite:
what a man’s physical eye sees  --  his mental one must ignore,
or else all of the many intangible things which attract man’s attention,
and about which much of his talk and thought is devoted, would disappear,
and man would not be the unique creature he is today.

By any standard that an ordinary man would deem valid:
what humans have accomplished on this planet is incomparable;
nothing like what they have done is known to exist anywhere else in the universe:
man stands as a singularity amongst all forms of life, yet he consistently,
in certain respects, judges himself to be inferior to other native creatures --
creatures who do nothing other than be born, and die;
whose only (quote) accomplishment is surviving in the period between the two.

If, my boy, a giraffe had for a moment, human sensibility, it would be flabbergasted --  and so would a human  --
if it weren’t for all the human stuff that automatically always gets in the way.
If men suddenly realized clearly what it is to be a man  --
I don’t know what would happen, but (wink,wink: nudge,nudge)
I do know what happens when one of our kind does.

Criminology 101 From Our: Classroom Of The Unclouded.
All crime is hormonal directed (that is): survival threatening,
and thus  --   is not funny  --  however:
thinking it to be something more than it is  --  is.
Ergo, all of man’s metaphysical censure of the human drama is hilarious
(leastwise to those in the audience not asleep).
 

On one planet were two distinct groups:
one which could laugh at death,
and another that could do so at illness;
the certain man transposes this to Earth and to the matters of:
not-knowing, and recognizing not-knowing.
 

Show Biz News.
When the certain man wants to experience a performance,
his interest is not in the preparations it took to put it on.
“Pa pa…”
    “Are you about to ask me if this is also the approach a more conscious man
      would take in his efforts to become even more conscious?”
“Something like that.”
 

There was once a king whose very breath seemed nurtured by the chaos of war,
and who, before riding into every battle would say to himself:
“Without these battles  --  there would BE no battles,”
and would add his horse: “And thus --  no king.”

A Common Example Of What It Is To Be: Sleeping-Through-The-Show.
Fifty year old men criticizing/condemning the sexual behavior of teen age boys.
 

Accepting that you’re imperfect is not the pay off:
understanding why men ever conceived of such a strange idea in the first place is.
 

At The Track
After hearing a jockey say that what makes a champion is not a horse that is
physically outstanding, but one that has the heart of a champion,
a bystander wondered if that applied to men who want to get to the bottom of things.
 

Anarchic Archeological Update.
Note found among the ruins:
“As long as you’re not sick  --  sickness doesn’t mean shit,
and as long as you’ve never been awake -- being asleep’s no big deal.”
 

Someone who SAYS they’re going to leave you  --  never does.
(And don’t think for a moment that this refers to anything other than
what it superficially sounds like!  --  no sir!)
 

One man says he frequently rejoins his regular mental program already in progress  --  much to his chagrin.
 

More Educational News.
Not only are the ordinary mind’s opinions on the popular topics of the day spurious  --  its selection OF such topics is a waste of a real mind’s time.
If a realized mind were to ever comment on the routine affairs of man, it would be: