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.
J
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