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Reporting Too Direct To Be Normally Perceived
 JUNE 3, 2004                                                                        © 2004: JAN COX



Quiz Based On A Conversation Between An Elder And A Younger.
“Just as (regardless of the circumstances and whatever may be the subject of
your conversation) you always tell every woman that she looks good,
so too do you always tell your children: ‘Sure!  --
you're more awake and enlightened than you used to be!’”
    “They deserve no less, huh?!”
Your question: In the above exchange: which one is which?
 

A poet was asked if he ever publishes any of his work that is questionable,
and he asked the questioner if he ever has thoughts that are.
Tourist Fact:  People who make their home in the city
do not like to have many of its features pointed out.
“Yes, there are certain advantages to trying to live in a dark cave,
(I cannot however at this very moment tell you precisely what they are,
but you may trust me on this.....which is also what I tell myself about my decision
to remain here......it is my decision isn’t it?.....well certainly it is, you old silly  --
whose else would it be!)”
 

In one place it was proposed they hire a well known sports announcer to be on a
city wide public address hookup and broadcast to everyone a real time
running commentary and analysis of their daily life.
    “Hey Bobby Lee! -- what ever became of that idea?”
“What’d you say Mad Dog? --  I can’t hear you over all the noise!”
    “But it’s just us here in our soundproof broadcast box.....Oh! --  I get ya.
      Good one, Bob-boy.”
The preceding by play is entirely fictitious and no such internal realization ever occurs in or among life’s ordinary spectators.
 

In a spasm of what he apparently hoped would at least be faux poetic frenzy
one man stood at the edge of a high cliff and cried out dramatically
to the clamorous waves crashing below:
“Be still, my frantic heart!” and his heart shouted back: “Be still yourself!”
(Another excerpt from: The Hormones & Mad Dog Neurons Show.)
 

In its hurried desire to progress: one young area decommissioned gradual sunrise: after a standard night of rest, their day began instantly! --
opening already in full operation.
Do not bother looking for this spot on a map: it exists only in a few people’s brain.
One expedient view of the matter is: You went to sleep all-at-once,
so too must you awaken.
    (“By: ‘Went to sleep-all-at-once’ you mean: Were born?!”)
Note: Not all questions are dumb  --  just those asked by the dumb,
(a notation not greeted amiably by the synapses manning mankind’s
primary seat of neural authority).
    “My god, am I glad to have been born a rebel: had I not I would not be able to
      put up with all of life’s everyday tediousness and stupidity!”
An edifying comment from a counterfeit insurgent.
    “But I believe that I’m trying to awaken!”
Once upon a time long, long ago the close proximity of
the lands of Believe and Make-Believe was well understood.
 

When you realize how man is able to see his collective failures as hidden successes, you grasp the power and purpose of partisan thought.
No one has any personal bias regarding the design of a dam  –
only about which engineer gets the commission.
(Alternatively put a la Technology Vs Gossip):
Thinking about science will not send your consciousness into dreamland  --
but thinking about the personal lives of scientists will.
     (“Is doing so about your own included?”)
 

The god overseeing affairs on one planet announced a new approach:
the nerve of half the inhabitants would be tested, and the patience of the remaining,
(someone muttered: “I thought he said a new approach.”)
 

Existence News For The Nervous-System-Rebel.
Health alone won’t keep you alive.
The voice-over gossip men remember is responsible for more mortal disorders
than all the planet’s viruses.
 

In case you haven’t gotten the news:
Violation Of Memory has been de-criminalized in all rebel neural jurisdictions.

Also, in case you’ve yet to realize it: No matter can bedatter your mind,
and send your consciousness to fairy land unless you think about it.
    “No no!  --  it can’t be that simple Mr. Green Genes!”
“Simple is not the appropriate word here Billy.”
    “Yeah, but you know what I mean: merely not thinking about a particular thing
      won’t make it cease to exist.”
“Don’t think about one and then tell me that.”
And someone gained unauthorized control of the station’s p.a. system and bellowed:
     “Who would want to go to Shangri La and not be aware of it?!”
Being aware of something and thinking about it are not the same thing.
    “Certainly they are!”
“You’re right  --  okay: to a few people.”
 

Anyone who subscribes to the notion:
“Poverty is the supreme enemy of human freedom and happiness,”
doesn’t understand what poverty is to the certain man.
(There is also a place where you can be wealthy [if you want to] and no one realizes.)
 

Outlier’s Physics.
From the expanded man’s view: things aren’t relative  --  just connected.
 

The head bookie stood before the big board and announced:
“In the on going struggle between the strong and the smart:
the odds are still being set  --  no they’re not!  --
I just said that to see who's dumb enough to believe it.”
Notice: Not all punters are runters  --  but enough are to have a
minimum height requirement to ride the roulette wheel in some casinos.
    (“I’m guessing that bettors and casinos mean more than meets the literal ear here.”
Guessing can also.)
 

Words construct the city’s structures and can likewise bring them down.
    (“Didn’t you mean to say: the city’s illusory  structures?!”
Where do you think we are: in Redundantville?)
 

“Just imagine,” said a guy laid out in city park, “if we took our apparent despondency as seriously as we want others to, we'd all be world famous metaphysical poets.”
On one world the inhabitants wish to be known as:
Those Beaten Down By Life Without Actually Being So.
 

(Excerpt From The Pertinent Writing):
“…but by then he found the moral of the affair to be strikingly obvious.”
 

Q: Why keep your mind locked tight?  --  what are you saving it for?
Fact: For standard consciousness: The time never comes.

     (“Am I to assume that what this refers to is supposed to be self evident?!”)
Not knowing what comes next is left to those who know   (what’s going on, that is).
 

J













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