In the natural progression from infancy to maturity,
a man goes from being a strictly biological creature
to becoming a psychological one,
but a man who gets-to-the-bottom-of-things
experiences a third stage wherein he returns to being
a special type of biological creature again:
“an enriched primitive 
wrapped in conscious sophistication,” you might say.

Those who do not know-from-experience 
have historically dreamt that “awakening” is 
what they want to call, “a spiritual affair” 
whereby the man awakened becomes
extraordinarily concerned, charitable & sympathetic, 
as per their definition of such terms.
Men who have never had their eyes fully opened
continue to think of the human experience as being somehow flawed, unfair and unduly harsh, 
and much in man’s mythologies and religions consist of
attempts to explain his disfavored position. 
A man who has come-out-of-his-room & into-the-light
sees no injustice in life,
but does finally see the source of such sentiments,
and understands their nature & purpose.

A man who thinks that being alive is unfair
is only partially alive;
he is alive as life needs the majority to be,
but not as alive as he could individually be.

People starve to death;
men kill one another;
they steal from one another,
(and toss in any other uncivil act you care to),
but a person who has cleared out their own attic,
and who can look over the town with 
unimpaired vision therefrom
sees no injustice on this planet  --  nor any possible --
anywhere in this universe.

Ordinary men equipped with a sense that 
life is unfair can never be made to see otherwise;
they are not supposed to.
Common men’s belief in life’s unfairness
helps to keep life in its common & proper condition.
Not even the dreamed-of, swooned-over, “spiritual saints”
see mortal existence as other than accursed.
Yet, examined with but a modicum of objectivity,
there is no factual basis for this view. 

Everything alive will die,
and between now and then,
everything is but gradual death.
If death is unfair, unjust & unduly harsh
then yes, you do have a case for saying that
life is unfair and harsh,
though such by any reasonable measure is silly.

Those men who act out the most unsavory scenes are
men whose progression from a strictly biological creature
to a psychological one was less than the prevailing norm,
and those men who decry this ever-present reality 
are those whose development into a psychological creature
has publicly overwhelmed their strictly biological self.
These two categories account for 99+% of humanity:
those who disturb the peace,
and those disturbed by the disturbance.
(“It’s just not fair, darn it.”)

There has always been a quite small number of men & women
walking around on this planet in any given year who do not
fit either of the above two classifications;
they are not feral and dangerous,
but neither are they radically civilized.
They are not uncontrollably driven by animal instincts,
yet their psychologically-safe, public persona is a sham.
They are neither disturbers-of-the-peace,
nor do the routine disturbances inherent in ordinary life
poison their lives unnecessarily. 

They can appear to be sympathetic when it is called for,
but they understand that sympathy is simply a noise
the mind makes,
and one which is not in the essential, though silent vocabulary
of tangible reality.
 

   To be awake is to be an enriched primitive
   wrapped in conscious sophistication.

      Stop pretending that you are otherwise,
      and you might catch on.
 

                            J A N