*image by Ben Harubin

 

 

Our minds do not direct our lives;
our bodies do not direct our lives;
LIFE directs our lives,
and none but the mind sees it otherwise.
(In a self-serving action, need I add?)

The inner state that the few have long referred to as "captive" is sustained
by the perception of mental activity being properly tripartite in nature -- of it
consisting of the thinker, the thing being thought about, and the act of thinking.
A classification that seems to add to knowledge, but contributes naught to
understanding, and in fact is viscidly distracting vis-a-vis freedom.

To jackals were talking and one of them said:
"How did humans get to be on top and have it so easy when we're still out here,
livin' with the fleas, runnin' from the weather, and eatin' whatever we can get our paws on?"
And the other one replied:
"It's because humans live in two different worlds simultaneously."
And the first jackal scratched his head and said:
"You can't tell it from lookin'."
And the second one replied, "I know, that's the weird part."

When you have but one job, you need only one intelligence.
But to get anywhere in this solar system, you gotta do better than that.
Having creatures who can move in two directions at once has proven a boon
for the herd, yet a few individuals find the situation intolerably distracting.

Those who talk for a living (that it, whose lives are dependent on talk)
find everything adequately covered, once the topics of health, feelings,
and finances have been noted.
What then (goose yourself) does that leave those wishing for unnatural
freedom to discuss (other than in such areas as the debate over contemporary,
colloquial use of prepositions as conclusions of sentences)?

"So, you wanna talk about talk, eh?
So, you wanna see a football kick a football, eh?
So, you still expect to wake up while thinking and talking about it?"

My blood pressure's down today,
I'm not currently mad at anybody,
and I've got a comfortable nest egg stashed away.
What more could I ask for?
What other freedoms are there to discuss?

So, take your footballs, your prepositional positioning, and all of your
talk-about-talk and leave me the hell alone to live my life as I will be
forced to live it anyway, no matter what I say!"
(Hmmm, de boy show promise, do he not?)...