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    JAN'S FRESH REAL NEWS

                                          © 2001: Jan Cox
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November 1, 2001.
 
 


Man is the battleground of a revolution;
within him are extremely large numbers of microscopically small insurgents
struggling mightily to expand their scope of power –
and not just in him --  but the whole universe.






This significant activity, though not publicly noted,
is clearly, if unwittingly, reflected in man’s behavior,
in that while he appears to be an irrepressible macroscopic expansionary force ceaselessly striving to overcome the status quo of his own natural environment,
what is really taking place is a microscopic revolution within him in which
the neurons of his brain are tenaciously engaged in a relentless effort to
overcome the present state of consciousness.
What neurons have been attempting since the beginning of civilization on this planet
is nothing less than revolution, and indeed is obliquely responsible for same.
 

The hubris (polite Greek synonym for stupidity) of man is in him seeing himself as the originator of this drive within him to ever expand his range of dominion,
not only on his home turf, but even to worlds beyond,
when proper investigation of the matter would clearly indicate that some other --  unseen force and intelligence is behind this incessant expansionary hunger,
and that man is merely its medium.
 

Man pictures his real history as having commenced when he became dissatisfied with being at the whims of nature in finding food, and undertook the agricultural revolution whereby –  using his mind --  he overcame the status quo of being a foraging creature, and settled down to a more comfortable life as a farming one;
man takes credit for this substantial and profitable change in the way he now lives compared to previously,
but what motivated him back then to ponder the existing situation,
and develop tools and techniques that allowed him in essence to
subdue the very forces of nature?   --   the teeming, teeny neurons in his brain:
they were the instigators and the brains of the operation;
man simply did the grunt work;
the physical labor necessary to implement the neurons' plans.
 

Neurons are the universe's true revolutionists
in that they are always looking at the larger rather than the smaller;
man,(who appears to be a rebel only via his association with neurons as their lackey)
on the other hand will just as quickly turn his attention to things smaller than he is; neurons --   never.
(For example): men study and fiddle around with things  much smaller than themselves on the cellular/neural level,  while neurons only spend their energy on things
larger than themselves --   man, (foremost),
for they must first completely overtake him (their native planet)
before they can expand their control over his planet totally;
after that they can (and are already beginning to) extend their grasp to worlds beyond.
 
 

(Of passing interest [and to give the little darlings their due],
is the fact that neurons have motivated man to turn his attention to
some things smaller than himself --  cells for instance –
an activity that --  surprise! surprise! --  just happens to result in a better life for cells.)

 

Neurons as revolutionists are also in a league of their own in that they have managed to keep their activity completely unknown to the status quo supporters of the
territory in which they live and operate  --  man (macroscopically speaking);
no other insurgency in the history of this planet has been able to
accomplish such a feat --  none have ever even contemplated its possibility.

Think about it:
a revolution has been going on uninterrupted in a place for many thousands of years without the nominal ruling power having any suspicion thereof --
can man really be so dense?........or can neurons be that clever?
 
 

Neurons, in practice, have a slave labor force which toils enthusiastically
and without complaint  --
never realizing that its efforts are on another’s behalf --  and even should they:
on what righteous basis could they complain? –
in light of the incomparable benefits they have enjoyed from the arrangement.
 

By any definition, neurons are a singular, even ferocious expansionary force,
and indeed --  unstoppable,
in that even when their planet (a man) is destroyed (dies), they continue to live
(being that at the elementary level neither cells nor atoms ever perish),
and a man with that certain-hunger to investigate-&-comprehend goes about his work crippled if he does not keep this in his mind,
(those with that hunger having non standard neurons which allows them to hold such normally excluded information in their neurally controlled mind),
and how this comes to most specifically bear on those seeking to
get to the bottom of things is that neurons, seemingly as a kind of hobby,
also have men engaged in a particular part time activity:
the attempt, (from men’s point of view), to  --   understand themselves,
which accounts in part for men, (as opposed to neurons),
studying things smaller than themselves (to wit): neurons,
something they either can not or will not do for themselves.
                                        (Breathtaking, is it not, in its audacity!)
 

So remember: every time you are trying to understand yourself,
you are actually engaged in an activity on someone else’s behalf:
                         neurons wanting to understand themselves.

Think about it some more: you, a sensation composed of neurons,
making you try to do something for them that they cannot do for themselves!
                                  What kind of chump romp is that?!

                                ............(Not to mention all of the fun it brings!)

                                                      J