We stand today on a field 
whereon was once fought a battle
that proved most costly to the aggressive party, 
and while such physical outbursts 
are a part of man’s instinctive nature,
it has a mental counterpart 
wherein its exercise is always cost prohibitive 
to a man seeking individual victory, (so to speak), 
over a humdrum field of consciousness.
 

Overall Fact: Being alive is a form of warfare.
Fact for The Few: Mental resistance denies reality.
 

Sans melodramaticism --  staying alive is competition,
between hunters & prey, animals & plants, 
viruses & hosts, and intraspecies, 
for food, mates, and space,
and therein rightly do prey resist being preyed upon by fleeing,
plants resist being eaten by 
making themselves distasteful,
hosts resist succumbing to viruses by 
their immune system, 
and by head-on, physical resistance 
do members of the same species 
resist attacks by their kind,
but if your desire is freedom from 
wearisome, useless combat,
then the matter of mental resistance becomes a drama 
played on a much less probable stage.
 

Mental resistance denies reality,
and is an activity that will forever keep a man 
internally engaged in warfare whose substance
is but the empty symbolism of its smoke & din.

Physical competition makes the 
material world go ‘round;
arguing does so for man’s mental one.
Thus, for any man’s thought to survive --
 some other man’s thought must resist it –
--  must deny it.
No idea springing from the neural womb of one man 
will get up and walk for a time in the forum
unless another man quickly attempts to 
kick its feet out from under it. 

In the physical world, as soon as a colt is dropped, 
it can stand on its own legs,
but in the world of thought,
the purely invented creatures there 
must be constantly propped up by 
extrinsic forces of resistance to merely survive.
 

      The real stands on its own --
       the illusionary must be helped.
 

When your thoughts disagree with someone else’s,
yours helps theirs to survive.

Believing that other people’s ideas are false
assists in their perpetuation.

Resisting reality denies reality,
and denying reality is what keeps you 
asleep and confused.

It is not a question of whether another person’s thought 
on a matter is correct or not,
the reality is:  that is his thought on the matter.

The thought of not eating glass is correct,
the thought of not being an agnostic is neither 
correct, nor incorrect  --
--  it is insignificant  -- it is simply a thought.

As this exists in the lives of others
is of no consequence;
utilizing an understanding thereof is only of value to
the exceptional man here & there who longs to succeed at whatever the hell this is.

Those who hear about, then embrace the idea that
men are not as conscious as they could be,
and that their mental views of life are as images
had-in-a-dream,
if they are to ever alter the situation in themselves
they must see for themselves that by accepting the
resistance the thoughts in their heads relentlessly offer to 
at least half of what goes on and is said in life
they keep their views of life 
as through a veil.

Ordinary men display their intelligence by 
resisting ideas they deem unintelligent,
when the objective truth is that there is no such thing as
an intelligent thought,
(outside of those concerning physical objects
wherein the intelligence of the thought is determined 
by its faithfulness in its description of same),
but in the world of  thoughts about things intangible,
there are none that are either intelligent,
or not intelligent;
neither faithful to the truth about the thing discussed,
nor unfaithful to it --  since such is not possible 
regarding matters imaginary.

The thought that describes fire as hot is intelligent;
the thought  that describes Cinderella as fair is not,
nor is one that calls her dark.
When thoughts speak of thoughts
no faithfulness is possible;
when fictions comment on fictions
the question of faithfulness is absurd.

Each time you stick with a thought that appears in your brain 
that resists a thought that has come from
another man’s brain
you are directly denying the reality OF reality;
you are however directly supporting 
the illusion of you --
that fiction head-character created by 
the wandering troops of thoughts 
who bivouac in your brain. 

And now the battle really gets interesting,
for even after you realize for yourself 
the unacceptable expense & inanity of 
resisting other people’s thoughts & mental pictures
you are then confronted with the 
ultimate challenge:
ceasing to resist the patently fictitious picture of you
as presented by your own thoughts.

If every time someone shouts:
”There is an Existentialist under the bed!”
you say: “No there is not!”
you are wedged under the bed with 
an Existentialist,
and if every time the thoughts in your head 
say that you are this or that,
and you think: “That’s correct  -- 
and I have got to stop it!”
you have tightened your arms around an imaginary
dance partner-cum-tar-baby 
as you blithely whirl about in a ballroom that 
floats just off the  ground  --
--  just above reality --
    --  just enough to keep you from seeing it.
 

Fact: Out of six billion entranced dancers,
          no one will notice OR care if there is one less.

          ….it could be YOU!

                Hell --  why not?!

                                .....why not, indeed.

                                                     JAN