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Everyone
who wants to sell you something first appears to want to help-you;
those
who want to help you first want to frighten you --
get
you as disturbed as they are -- which is what drives them to
want to help others.
(“Which
is not the selfless act it sounds, huh Dad!”)
Taking
apparently a cue from the highly successful soviet plans, one man installed
in his struggle to reinvent his consciousness: A
Seven Year Plan
which
he believed would help facilitate the reaching of his goal,
giving
each year its own pertinent description:
first
year was titled: “The fewer words the better.”
Second
year: “The fewer words the.”
Third
year: “The fewer words,” and you see where it’s headed.
And
after a lengthy period of pondering life from a certain angle,
one
man finally asked himself: “Is reality alone -- entertaining
enough?”
or
as the civilized would say: “It is the meaningless in life that makes life
worthwhile.”
And
a famous political commentator in one city says he only entered that field
because of his inability to master welding.
And
as soon as they had been introduced, the first man said complementarily
to the second: “So -- you’re Lawrence Whitcomb -- I’ve heard
a lot about you!”
at
which instant Lawrence secretly glanced up to his brain and ruefully mused:
“So
have I -- so have I.”
The
indigenously dense will profess to be heavily involved in pondering
very
complex matters of far, far away,
so’s
to cover up their hypnotizing fascination with the extra simple ones,
close,
close at hand
(and civilization
[along with its many highly regarded institutions] collectively groaned,
and rolled its
eyes heavenly in a display of displeasure with that last comment,
[part of the
responsibility is protecting the fragile sensibilities of its citizens]).
As
regards: getting-the-rebel’s-job-done:
just
knowing what to do is a hundred per cent of the problem.
Dousing
a dog’s ass with flea spray will cause him to turn round and round more
times than usual before finally sitting down –
same
with attempts to deodorize a man’s mind.
Putting
on his old man’s clothes, and playing around with playing, grown-up, one
kid stood in front of a full length mirror, drew his imaginary guns and
declared:
“Ain’t
nobody running my mind outta town! What’s the sense in havin’ a thought
if you ain’t gonna stick with it no matter what!
Bang!
-- you outsiders -- you interferin’ suckers
-- BANG!”
And
apparently fearing what death might do to his well established mind set,
one man says he’s ‘bout decided just not to die
(and
there is another guy who also threatens never to die, but for a different
reason: he says he’s not going to run the risk that him doing so may give
someone pleasure,
[then
even stranger, there is the case of the certain man
who
is constantly trying
to decease himself]).
In
the city: nothing helps and nothing hurts,
“Pardon
me for intruding, but what you just said: is that why some people call
it:
‘The
Place That No One Built’?”
Ordinary
men of automatically running intelligence are offended by thinking that
conflicts with theirs, while the rebel could only be offended could he
be
forcibly
stopped from his purely independent thinking
(‘course
this is entirely hypothetical: no one can stop him --
'cause
no one is aware he’s doing it [that’s simple enough to understand:
a
blind man can’t tell when wagner wanders far from standard harmony]).
So’s
not to let it, rain-on-his-parade,
one
man quit announcing his parade schedule,
(he
is the brother of that other chap who ceased trying to distinguish between
when
he was coming and when he was going [some things run in a family]
“Pa
pa -- when my thighs grow up -- can I run?”
“If you are speaking in the proper metaphorical sense -- certainly.”)
And
just at the edge of town, in the weird woods, a band of merry neural pranksters
looked back at the people in the city and sang:
“Oh, thieves, and harlots and bandits are we –
but never found out -- since we are three.”
The
definition of a really civilized
city is one in which all mirrors are banned --
except
obviously of course, the ones issued by the city to each child born there.
“So!
-- if everyone is born there -- rebels included
--
how
do you ever get away from the place?”
--
that’s
what’s so interesting: it’s simplicity itself,
so
much so that describing what’s involved sounds too foolish to be true,
“No!
-- go ahead -- tell me.”
--
okay:
to get away from it -- you merely have to see it,
“But
surely I do
see it! -- as you just noted: we are all born there! --
how
could I not see it?!”
“How-could-I-not-see-it?!”
-- that sentiment is all that is needed to keep you from it,
“Pardon
me for interrupting again, but could you possibly rephrase that?” –
yes:
no one knows what they’re talking about regarding the city,
and
only by realizing that can you ever see the place -- in
your brain -- for what it is.
One
rebel has this reminder tattooed in a secret spot:
“If
what you know, you didn’t make up --
how
can you be sure you know it?!”
(A
man fully faithful to his auto erotic relationship
plays
mental stink-finger only with his self,
“I
regret that I have but one me to give to me,” and a weather beaten area
of his brain wearily said: “Naw
-- don’t worry about it.”)
And
one man now admits: “Okay, mental-health is probably as good as anything
else,”
but
the rebel’s private position is: “Health
isn’t good enough --
everyone
in the city (part of the mind) is healthy;
if
healthy
was
good enough I wouldn’t be out here in the open, exposed and alone, bustin’
my balls like I am!" -- (the proceeding was of course,
just
a meaningless bit of fictional fluff to break up the seriousness of the
news).
“Pa
pa -- can you believe they said that?! -- ‘the seriousness-of-the-news’?!”
“'Tis strange times in which we live,
my boy.”
“Not
really?”
“Of course --
not really -- what’ave
you: lost your fuckin’ mind?!”
And
proudly displayed on the mayor’s arm,
the
tattooed prescription for good city living: “At
All Costs: Protect Thy Pretensions.”
Everyone
who wants to sell you something
first
presents their self as wanting to help you;
and
everyone who presents their self as wanting to help you,
will
immediately try to frighten you -- get you as disturbed as they are
--
which
is what drives them to try to make others believe they need their help;
(aside from drowning,
etc) -- no one needs anybody else’s help;
life
birthed you, and life will death you --
everything
you can experience other than those two things will be,
mental
entertainment -- and not
recognizing the full scope of what it is
is
what threatens to drive the few to bonkersville,
Oooooooooooooo!
abandon them now! -- for the end is near!
(I always throw
in a little bullshit like that just to cheer ‘em up).”
J
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