Today’s report is filed from the city of Unonociego, Paraguay, 
and as I watch the sun crawl up over the Atlantic, 
I consider the never ending popularity of the word, “ironic” 
in men’s descriptions of mortal affairs, 
along with their failure to recognize a second level of irony
in their failure to realize that what they believe they see that prompts the word 
is actually the antithesis of what is really going on.

When someone refers to some human event, 
(note that irony never comes into play regarding the natural world), 
as being, “ironic”
they mean that what they are verbally identifying as
an outcome of the affair was unexpected,
(incongruous, even).   ”Head of The Family Values Party
Discovered To Have Multiple Mistresses!” 
“Probe Reveals Corruption in Police Department!”
“Famous Inspirational Writer Commits Suicide!”
(Note that the common conception of irony is invariably flavored with an 
under-taste of personal judgement, (leaning toward sarcasm),
due to the fact that the brain’s consciousness does not make 
substantial comments on matters in which its limbic system 
has no interest. 
(Men do not talk about things that they have no feelings about..)

So, thoughts say that it was  unexpected --   incongruous 
that the head of a political organization whose very name 
publicly proclaims its dedication to the morality of marital fidelity 
should turn out to be a philanderer,
or that illegal activity goes on within the very
institution charged with suppressing same,
or that a man whose words fostered hope in others, 
had none himself ?!

(I will, in the following quoted sentence, 
momentarily deal in theatrical sarcasm for the sake of 
nudging you to look where I am attempting to point.) 
“Are people idiots?! 
Are they REALLY surprised to have it noted that 
the types of men who seek power are inherently 
testosteronely driven, all across the board,
or that those attracted to law enforcement are but criminals lacking nerve,
or that spielers of advice are those seeking same themselves?!
Or could it be that men simply close their eyes to 
the reality of affaires de humaine, 
and just pretend to be surprised when the truth is laid on ‘em?!
(End of literary sarcasm.)

Yet from one view it does seem unbelievable that 
men do not clearly realize  --  "The Nature of Man” -- 
in that they be one……….
but obviously that is not the way mortal life plays out.

“Ironic” might as well be a synonym for, “stupidity,”
for anyone who sees irony in life IS stupid,
(or, if you prefer:  “asleep,”  in “maya,” 
or trapped in open-eyed alpha waves).
Regardless of the term,
when consciousness provides a thought that 
causes a man to say that he sees irony, 
the brain has to be engaged in knowing misrepresentation,
for the consciousness of the brain is the supreme,
and in fact, sole observer and arbitrator of 
what it is to be human.
Out of all the cells that make up your body,
and produce the hormones, and animalistic instincts 
that define you as a human being, 
only those in your brain’s cortex make note thereof.
Silently, the cells of the gonads produce testosterone;
audibly do those of the cortex comment on their aftermath: 
“Hey look!  A priest got a woman pregnant!”
“Hey look!  A politician took a bribe!”
“Hey look!  A psychiatrist with depression!”

Why does the very thing that constantly observes, measures,
and defines the physiological functions,
and physical activities that constitute the natural life of a human being
so try to delude itself into denying what it clearly knows to be true?
Why does the brain go to the trouble of producing conscious thoughts 
if it knows before hand how commonly they will 
obscure the reality of things,
rather than assist in understanding them?

In routine states of alpha-through-delta-wave consciousness
thoughts stay engaged in a constant, 
“mapping-by-separation,”
whereby the physical world is broken apart in men’s minds 
for the purpose of finding ways to rearrange it to their benefit.
Thus does man’s technological civilizing of his environment progress,
and ergo does his consciousness’ efforts to
civilize his instincts trudge on.
The only way that human thought can express surprise at 
any form of human behavior is for it to picture an “outcome” 
that is somehow not organically connected to 
the circumstances it pictures as having produced it.
Only by inattentively drifting along with the mechanical thoughts that, 
“see-by-separation”
is it possible for a man  --   with a straight face  ---
to feign shock at the behavior of others, 
(or himself, if he is capable of jamma wave
states of consciousness.) 

Thus whenever other men cry, “ironic”, 
a man wanting-to-get-to-the-bottom-of-things 
misses a most profitable opportunity,  if he does not,
rather than seeing outcomes-incongruous-to-circumstances
sees instead the ever present, ever connected 
web of reality. 

Even the drowsy realize that 
never from apples does grape juice flow,
but only a man with a clean head 
admits to 4 being always the sum
no matter the mentally conceived-of conditions under which 
any two 2’s  are trotted out.

To refine your investigation of what’s-really-going-on,
prepare yourself beforehand so that wherever other men pretend to see 
artificially designated outcomes, results & upshots 
that are consequences of inexplicable human behavior,
that you will shake your head momentarily clear,
force open wide & receptive your peepers,
and will drink in freely the unparalleled beauty that is
the inseparable reality of how life is actually put together.

You do not “live-in” an environment –
you ARE an environment –
an environment-within-an-environment;
an inner, thought environment 
within an outer, physical one; 
a life within    --     life itself.

No man is separated from anything,
and no man’s life is distinguishable from that of life’s,
but not one of every million ever so sees.
 

If other men’s actions and words surprise you -- 
you are napping and dreaming in a ditch by the road.
If your own do --   you are asleep in your own room,
which is dark beyond black,
torpid past stagnant,
and smaller than a gnat’s navel.............. and shrinking.
 

Every leg that a thought sees which prompts it to condemnation
is one on which that thought is an ankle.

To, “be conscious” is to, “look-via-thought.”
To, “be asleep” is to continue to pretend that
you do not know this.

There is a quite valid view from which to say that
everybody is actually “awake,”  and 
hip to what’s going on,
but that only those who have worked to BECOME awake
can face up to it.

(P.S. this is not a joke…..
….unless you are not up to seeing it as not.)
 

Well, the marching samba band awaits us to fill out the clave section,
and this local pc I’m using is running out of electrons,
so  --   grab your axe, 
           switch on your inner booty shake, and – 
                                              get up offa that thing.

                                                Jan
 
 

When in criticism thought points somewhere & says: 
“Over there! Over there!” 
the smart man instantly looks:
“Right here  --   right here.”

Don’t waste your life unwrapping those 
same packages over & over again ---
launch a study of UPS.

Finally waking up to what’s actually going on isn’t the real surprise,
the fact that you ever slept through it is.