A man who loved the swing of jazz, detested the interruption of bass solos so much that he would always stop a CD on which one occurred;
change the radio station playing same; leave a club in which such began to take place, then one day asked himself: “What does me doing these things ultimately accomplish: will record producers stop letting the bass player take a solo;
will disc jockeys cease to play recordings with such,
and will club owners forbid the bands they book to allow it:
as much as I dislike this activity, and as unfailingly as I take action to
keep it out of my life, what can I do that might truly influence whether this routine occurrence continues to go on in life?”
He later (being also a man who wanted to awaken)
carried this question into a non musical area.
 

Everyone has a useless project in mind;
all projects in man’s second reality are useless
(unless you count their providing other people something to laugh at).
 

One outstanding feature of man’s mental only, second reality is that
any idea pertinent to things therein will make sense to somebody.
 

Every person has a useless project they want to talk about;
it is these projects that men have in mind which keep the human mind alive.
 

Man’s tolerance for radio, TV and movies
reflects his tolerance for his own meaningless, mechanical mental ramblings.

Definitions.
Mental Life In The City: a relay race with no final lap.
Culture: a race with no individual runners (that is: thinkers).
 

What do reporters and the religious have in common?
Reporters believe that rat holes are a sure sign of rats,
while the religious take the presence of rats as a strong suggestion of holes existing somewhere (quite possibly not where you can ever see them  --  but somewhere).
In civilized men, certain everyday hormones tend to produce in neurons extraordinary, metaphysical dreams, which the mind is wont to take for real and serious.
Rats are just rats, but spiritual holes for them, indeed a whole other matter,
in fact, a matter for a whole other reality.
The thinking of the certain man sticks to the basics, while that of city men cannot,
or its entire culture and structure would collapse.
 

More Stuff To Look Forward To (If You Want To).
The kind of people who love to tell you: “How-hard-they’ve-had-it”
ain’t seen nuthin’ yet.
 

One man says the best part of quoting dead guys is that
you don’t have to credit them since they ain’t here to sue you.
 

Everyone either wants to be entertained or to entertain.
 

To some: city life is one big shopping adventure:
to others it is an endless standing-in-line at the return counter.
 

Everyone either wants to be informed or to inform
(but not as many are interested in information as in entertainment).
 

Finally A Mental Health Fact That Is For REAL.
Though unrealizable and thus un useable in the city:
looking back is the cause of all depression.
And from Our Meteorological Desk:
Oft times the wind blows when it’s not really going any where.
And one chap laments: “It’s almost as hard to remember what you’ve said
as it is to say what you remember.”
 

The Fewer Facts Strategy.
One man says that since most of the facts that come from men’s mouths
are threatening --
what we need are fewer facts.
 

Everybody knows what’s wrong about things they don’t like, but not about anything else.  Is that not interesting.
“No  --  not unless you’re some kinda nut!”
 

Another Way To Tell That You Might Be A  Nervous System Rebel
The creations of ordinary people can’t mentally entertain you.
 

One guy says: “On the flight to wake-up, take a window seat.”
 

Cows love advertising and sheep want to be herded.
 

One man's motto for the mind: "Shoot first and give the answers later."