JAN’S
FRESH
REAL
NEWS
© 2001: Jan
Cox
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October
24, 2001.
STORIES
FROM AROUND THE UNIVERSE
&
UNFREQUENTED AREAS IN YOUR OWN NEURAL NEIGHBORHOOD
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Soon
after becoming civilized, everyone wants to be recognized as being hip;
the
few who come to realize what being civilized is, are hip,
(in
fact), not just hip, but super-hip
– and in a quite special way:
they
are secretly hip;
no
one knows they are hip but themselves,
for
the super-hipness
of knowing-what-is-really-going-on is invisible to ordinary people,
(hey,
if everyone could recognize the super-hipness,
then
everyone would be super hip…
..........and
then being so would no longer be anything special).
There
is a certain business which if carried on too openly in public will never
succeed.
There are underground tunnels to extraordinary places that can only be
dug alone.
There is a book which tells you everything you want to know, but you must
write it.
Men
who seem to know-more-than-is-good-for-them -- know
nothing;
those
who know -- know in secret;
that
which the few desire to know cannot be known in public.
The
secret is not a prize in Crackerjacks to be shown & verbally passed
around:
the
secret is in the hand that reaches in the box.
***
On
one planet it doesn't matter what you think
just
as long as you act like you believe it matters;
this
is both true for the majority, in one sense,
and
also true for a few, in another.
What
is true for the forest is not necessarily so for the few trees who are
conductive;
a
blight might befall 'em all,
but
not all will buckle under the pressure and drop to their knees in supplication
forays
into insanity.
On
every planet, those who know-what-is-going-on
do
not go on about it.
***
One
man says: “I have, over the years, gradually gotten myself into such a
condition that even if I cannot say that I fully understand what is going
on in life,
I
can say that whatever does go on no longer bothers me.”
There
is no greater manifestation of being blind & dazed than being of such
a mind
as
to mistake now for always.
***
At
birth, every living thing knows a secret;
plants
& animals cannot think it, and hence cannot forget it;
man
however does put it in words and thereby, soon misspells it --
-- thus misplacing its significance.
***
In
this world of six billion people there are twelve billion stories;
six
billion, the people know about, and six billion they're oblivious to.
To
be ordinary and to sleep through life
is
to accept the seriousness with which ordinary consciousness takes
life.
***
When
animals have nothing to do, their consciousness stares -- blankly;
when
humans do not, theirs stares also -- but ostensibly at something
-- itself.
Pretending
to take life seriously is not difficult, but what is difficult
is
pretending to take seriously those people who really seem to take
life seriously.
***
There
is literally no limit to the number of ways of looking at & describing
man,
and
part of the trick to getting secretly-hip
is
in producing as many as you can for yourself.
***
Everyone
has two minds -- only a few make use of both --
and once you start,
it
is only a matter of time until you want to know what is really going on
around here.
...and
when a son said disgustedly: "I can’t believe how little I understand,”
his
father responded: “If you can’t believe that -- you can’t
believe anything.
Congratulations -- you're finally starting to get the hang
of it.”
J