Change: (1) Why it is not possible in the city: The opposite of anything bears the characteristics-cum-flaws (although in reverse) of the original;
thus any condition or behavior turned around can be no more satisfying than
it was to begin with.
(2) Any part of you that resists change  –  will never understand it.
(3) All change proposed by a man’s automatic-consciousness (the city)
is an attempt to alter one’s genetic past:
On Life’s scale: condemnation of a current condition or mode of behavior
is one set of genes trying to alter the operations of the whole organism:
it is Life (through a man’s consciousness) saying: “I will undo myself.”
(4) Change exists  –  but not as man’s routine consciousness conceives.

Characteristics: (1) The primary characteristic of anything is that it has characteristics; to automatic-consciousness, characteristics seem debatable and changeable;
city consciousness believes the characteristics of a thing (itself principally) can be improved or abolished while still preserving the essential nature of the thing
(read: oneself).
(2) The goal of the certain man’s Aim is to have no characteristics;
to be un-lived-in internally; be a house with no furniture –  no architectural style;
it is the untraceable journey to a place that allows no characteristics.

The City: (1) Where no one is upset that the pail they are given is never filled.
(2) Where people will do anything except what works.
(3) A location where consciousness will consider anything  –  except what is.

Information & Its Necessary Movement For Profit: In order to make a profit,
those who produce goods must move them from their place of production;
no one can realize a profit by raising the same crop as his neighbors
and then attempting to sell it to his neighbors;
to be valuable goods must be transported to areas where they are not produced.
This applies to ideas as well as tangible stuffs; it applies particularly to the nervous-system-rebel who must move ideas internally in his self from whence they originated to fresh markets whereat they turn him a surprising profit.
If you do not keep your ideas and information moving  –   it is wasted.

Sort Of: There is no such thing.

Populaces, Mobs & Crowds: All populaces are inescapably stupid:
this is true in the political realm as well as the internal; the mob that inherently comprises your automatic-consciousness is irredeemably dumb and cruel;
that’s how Life makes it  --  that’s how it is.
Therefore:  no positive change can ever come from a mass activity;
such can destroy an empire  –  but not construct one;
it can denounce an art  –  but not create one itself.
The inner rebel understands by natural feel that no assistance is possible to him
from any mass undertaking: such activity is always cruder, dumber,
and more simplistic than you.
The populace that is your natural born consciousness has no respect for
the Monarch (your “I” –  your personality) that through blood descent is on the throne
of your nervous system kingdom because it does not exercise unconditional power, and govern via unappealable decisions:
this is why everyone feels bad about themselves.
Real rebels have a proper disgust of mobs  –  internally and otherwise.

Placebo Effect: (1) Consciousness' labeling of anything that does not fit its inherent model of how things are as, imaginary  --  or, speculative;
keeps it as well as do sugar pills men under a psychiatrist's care.
(Note: how this conflicts with the ingrained notion  that events move in a straight, rational line: one thing reasonably causing another, but in the Placebo Effect, this all breaks down; the imaginary influences the real:
“This can't be happening!  -- there is no basis for this cure!” --
yet a placebo provides one.)
(2) In man's intangible reality: everything is the Placebo Effect:
there are no real treatments since there are no real illnesses.

Power: (1) The purpose of power is to exercise power and the proper exercise of power has nothing to do with right-&-wrong morality;
nothing more in the city is to be said of significance concerning power.
(2) If you do not exercise power  –   you do not have power;
what you think you have is but a dream.
(3) Real power does not discuss itself; it does not debate – it decrees – it exercises:
if it announces, it does so simultaneously with acting;
any interplay that may occur between the ruling power and the populace is not found
in discussions regarding the former’s actions but in such actions themselves.
(4) The ruler who does not exercise power that cannot be swayed by words
will not have the respect of those he rules,
and a ruler who is not respected will lose his power.
(5) In a refined kingdom where the ruling power understands the exercise of power, when it announces a decree, the populace does not ask: “Why?”
or: “How is it to be accomplished?” –  the people simply act in response.
All of this entry addresses the rebel’s governing of his own inner state.

Partially Known: (1) In ordinary consciousness: things are not as they are  –
things are as they partially are;
if man’s nervous system did not take things partially, everyone would see that
things are as they are, and no one would attempt to change anything
and there would be no civilization, culture or technology.
(2) Nothing in man’s intangible realm is known  –   everything is partially known;
if things there were known as they are  –  they would be known to not be there,
and this important collective reality would collapse.
(3) Things only partially seen are always seen as being something other than what they are; X partially seen is not seen as X, but as Y (even, anti-X).
(4) Nothing can be seen and known totally  –  and if it is, you can’t put a name on it.
(5) Using natural born consciousness: no one can ever see their self in full,
or know what they are in toto:
having any complaint with yourself is the unmistakable sign that
what is known about you  –   to you is only partial;
only with extraordinary and unnecessary effort can this be surpassed.
(6) All responses your ordinary consciousness has toward you as a discrete human being are responses to a partiality, and all stories it tells about you
(and by default, others) seem plausible because they’re all partially valid;
what men’s routine consciousness cannot accept is a presentation of the
complete picture: “Oh no! –  that CAN’T be correct!” is the eternal name of that tune.

Palindrome: The certain man is a living palindrome (that is):
He reads the same forwards and backwards.

Royal Bloodlines: (1) There are the named, visible ones in the external world
that long provided the hereditary rulers of the earth’s population, but there is also
an invisible, unknown process whereby those who know of it can bolster
the quality of their metaphorical blood through the efforts to achieve The Aim:
it is by not squandering the symbolic Amv12 present in everyone’s blood,
but which is normally depleted through the discharge of routine human emotions
and ideas before it can reach the level of consciousness;
thus the process is one of enrichment-via-conservation.
(2) You cannot inherit this special blood line, nor have it passed on to you;
only you can cause it in yourself.

Payoff: There is some nourishment in everything:
always a payoff to any energy exchange between two discrete entities,
but the nourishment normally available to man is insufficient for the rebel’s activity: you cannot get healthier from partially substantial information.

Rationalization: A buffering of yourself from the fact that you don’t know what’s
going on.  (Also goes under the cover of denouncing others for their ignorance.)

Secret Knowledge: The notion that there is such is one of Life’s greatest
diversionary ploys.  (This does not mean that it could not be true  –
it just keeps it from being so for those of routine consciousness.)

The Lookout: Stay on it.