In their hunger and search for the, supreme-reality-of-things, men pay much lip attention to the need for, “original thinking,” and will point to improvements in technology as always being dependent on such. But their I.Q.’s are instantly lowered, and they are rendered myopic as soon as they turn their attention to matters which no inventor can set on a work bench.
The fact is that the type of men who want to know – The Truth – have no real interest, or regard for such activity. They will avail themselves of the benefits of science and technology, which always come about due to some new understanding of the truth about the materials that make up the physical world, but they do not consider such achievements as being on a level with their search for the metaphysical-truth…which would be okay…except for one detail.
Seekers of The Truth are not amiss in their assessment that “original thinking” is required for success in their search, for if the current thinking was going to lead to The Truth, it would have already done so. Obviously what is needed is “original thinking” to correct the errors in that which is presently available.
If you attempt to correct the flaws in someone else’s thinking, you do nothing but reveal yourself to be a fool, with a phantom hunger for The Truth. The truth about what is going on in life and in you will not be discovered from your passionate mental head-butting with other people on the playing field of debate and discussion, nor can any idea that came from ordinary human thinking ever be straightened-out, modified, expanded, or in any way corrected to such a degree as to finally lead to The-Truth-About-Things.
As long as your thinking does battle with other men’s thinking, you are not playing on your own field; not researching in your own lab, nor studying in your own classroom. Without doing so, you are eternally doomed to only getting dirty, bruised, and discouraged, because on any of the mental playing fields normally available to man, success is not the goal, nor purpose. The purpose of the game is to keep the game going, not for some player to win!
What are you nuts?!
You’ve lived this long and never noticed that before?!
J.