Every accusation against man amounts to one thing:
his believing he knows that which
he does not.
(Save
theft), every condemnation man can or ever has leveled at
his
fellow creatures, (that they are stupid, asleep, unenlightened),
all
indirectly and unwittingly point to the one thing:
man’s believing that he knows things
which he does not.
The
only accusations non thinking creatures make always concerns theft:
theft
of what one creature physically possesses, (food, territory, mate, or its
life),
and
the complaints are physically registered;
transiting
the mere animal sphere: the accusations unique to man always concern
something non physical he claims to possess -- knowledge.
Without
clearly realizing what he is involved in,
men
constantly condemn one another under a variety of verbal indictments,
but
they all boil down to but a single pimple:
men believing that they know things
which they do not.
A
man will peacefully accept that another man knows nothing about plumbing
as
long as he admits it and does not attempt to pretend otherwise;
unpretentious
ignorance is always acceptable everywhere,
but
what men are unknowingly made to find verbally intolerable in one another
when
they believe they sense same,
is
a person insisting they have knowledge of a particular matter when,
to
the accuser's eyes -- they clearly do not.
This
however is a quite limited and forcefully subjective game
amongst
the ordinary, and leads no one to new insights and discoveries;
the
sport is confined to an endless cycle of:
accusations,
defenses and counter accusations.
One
man’s thoughts cause him to say that a second man’s professed political
beliefs are foolish and without rational foundation;
that
he does not know what he is talking about;
and
he does this without him ever questioning the basis of his assured-felt
accusation,
not
that he would find one if he looked for it, any more than one could be
discovered for the beliefs of the second man which he condemned.
Regarding
matters in man’s non physical second reality,
experts
exist only by
pretending to know things they do not know,
and
those who listen to these experts, know that they do not know,
but
they pretend not to know that the experts do not know.
No two way pretending -- no world of culture, entertainment
& civilization.
For
the few with that special itch,
this
on going, routine human activity means nothing, proves nothing,
and
leads to nothingville,
but
unless you see it for what it is -- you IS
part of it.
It
is a 360° scene which, if you look at it normally,
will
stick to your eye/I-balls and make you blind.
It
makes no difference to a RealRebel
if other people claim/believe
they
know why interest rates fluctuate; why wars start; the purpose of life;
why
some people are so stupid; what happens after death;
an
air conditioned man with his own outdoors fish to fumigate understands
that
what other humans are made to say that they believe they know
about
any and all matters which they can talk about but cannot physically touch
has
no bearing whatsoever on his cookout & search for exotic food;
the
onliest instance in which pretending-to-know-when-you-do-not
affects
his existence is when it occurs in his own backyard.
If
you truly want to remain ignorant, just keep noticing how ignorant
everyone
around you is:
just
keep mentioning how even experts and world leaders act like
they
know what they are talking about, but that you know better;
they
don’t fool you! They’re all a bunch of idiots and frauds! –
sure
they are -- but that IS
man’s second reality;
from
an immediately meaningful perspective: that whole world is a fraud;
who
is going to keep such a world going other than frauds -- willing
frauds;
stop
being one yourself and their existence will cease disturbing you.
In
one sense, those who long for the awakening/enlightenment
are
reacting to a feeling of theft;
that
the routine conditions of man’s mental life have stolen from their mind,
its innocence;
its pristine-ignorance and original capacity for extraordinary joy,
and forced it to imitatively adopt a façade of claiming to know
things
which it and you clearly do not know.
Being asleep and unenlightened is being --
pretend-ignorant;
being awake is the real thing.
J