To a progeny posed a pater:
“Even though health is a man’s most radical concern:
if a man has a terrible illness, but suffers no symptoms --  does it count?”
(And the lad being no recent arrival from Boobland,
understood that his father was not speaking of physical maladies,
and the elder pressed:
“But ask yourself: If a man has no idea of how uninformed he is about life --
what does it matter to him?
Do you look down on worms for them being what they are, and feel sorry for them?
Worm life continues a tempo oblivious-to and untouched-by outside views,
and comments  --
does not also, man’s collective consciousness?

The ground smells funny only to a few anomalous worms,
and they, independently, must undertake an investigation of matters olfactory.”
(And the sapling further grasped that the subject was not actually about aromas.)

"How about yet another version:
Can you be asleep and dreaming if you are not aware that you are asleep?
Can you be so uninformed of what is going on
that you have no idea whatsoever of how uninformed you are?
Don’t forget: slugs are slugs and yet don’t know that they are.
It wasn’t until thought stepped onto the stage of consciousness
that Adam was moved to give names to everything around him,
but you do realize that orchids were what they are before his thoughts ever graced them with their sobriquet.
This is what gives rise among the few to the ponder:
Who were you before you were born (which is to ask):
What were you before your brain’s consciousness produced a thought-based awareness therein OF a you?
(So back where I started):

No one is interested in knowing this but the certain man  --
so not being interested is no knock against everyone else.
All men have their hobbies  --  our family’s just happens to be:
you and me trying to drive everyone else out of our head.”
 
 
 

“Ain’t that the way it is: the very things you’re trying to keep out  --
keep answering the door ‘fore you can stop ‘em.”
 
 
 

More people want to be an inner knight than ever realize that the desire
IS the kingdom they seek to explore and overcome.
Question: Have you talked to your son today?
Had that ongoing, in-depth, in-code conversation only possible for those
with a part of their brain uncommonly active?
If that area is alive in you?  --  what are you waiting for?  --
why would a person squander such a potential?

The reason for ordinary families is to keep the species going:
the special inner one of the few, is to expand the range of life’s consciousness;
herds are too cautious and conservative for this purpose;
it is all on the obscure strays.
 
 

At the conclusion of his comments
the speaker agreed to take questions from the audience,
and someone asked him to tell of the personal problems in his life,
and how he had survived them, but he shook his head, and said he could not do so,
since he had not yet actually survived them.
 

Someone else spoke: “Would you once and for all define stupidity?”
   “Allowing the past to override the present,”
which was followed up by: “Is that why a younger generation dislikes an older one?”
    “Yes --  until they become it”  --
which points back to the poser:
“Can you dislike being a cricket if you don’t know that you are one?”  --
and on to the even more enriched extension thereof:
“Being critical of a thing will keep you from ever comprehending what it actually is.”