The father turned from his computer screen, after reading the day’s Fresh Real News, and said to the son: “Mention is made here of a subject that should be of particular interest to you, and one relevant to our recent talks, the necessity of ‘original-thinking’– or how to make this extraordinary mental adventure you have stepped into, ever actually go anywhere.
The view from our family’s traditional involvement in this activity is even wider in scope and description, and says that, compared to what is possible for some, men do not, think – period. Never mind ‘original’ or ‘non original’ terminologies and distinctions, from one quite sound perspective it can be said, (just among us), that from our private traditional view, men do not normally engage in what our family considers to BE thinking.
As always, this is not a criticism of man, nor a professed notice of some flaw in life’s arrangement of his affairs, it is simply that what ordinary men, (under directions from life), call, ‘thinking’ and what our family considers to be so are two different things.
In the world outside our family, what people call, ‘thinking’ is that instinctive, thus, automatic activity that goes on continually in everyone’s brain, (not unlike the beating of the heart, or the breathing of the lungs). This ‘thinking’ is one of man’s many reflexive reactions to – being alive, and it plainly serves him well in the collective sense, (which of course is where we all are radically based and dependent), but on a strictly individual basis, this physiological activity in the brain, can be ever so slightly shifted, by ever so few people, to produce results unknown to ordinary men.
That this private, individual alteration in the brain’s normal operation presents such a dramatically different view of life, is the valid justification of me saying that men do not ordinarily, think. An automatic physical process goes on in them that they call, ‘thinking,’ but it is not something that individual people ordinarily promote in themselves, nor actively contribute-to, nor personally participate-in; it is something that just happens to them. It just so happens to happen in them, thus the sensation, (since they be conscious of the activity), that they are DOING it, rather than it HAPPENING to them.”
J.