A fat man can shed pounds, a drunk can abandon booze, but a man with one certain state of mind is not allowed to materially tinker with it. A man’s consciousness is his home and pure domain, and he brooks no changes therein which HE does not authorize – and HE, (apparently in everyone, regardless of what he may allow them to say to the contrary), is quite satisfied with how things are in everyone’s consciousness.
Thus we have people who sincerely want to change their present mental state of X, to that of what they are sure would be an improvement, state Y. But no go, the little man inside of them, who controls their mental process, will not allow it.
The above explains everything about man, and specifically, the staggering difficulty of a human attempting to change the way their consciousness operates. Yes, the existence of a little man in your head, with the powers above noted, would explain everything – except for one small problem.
(Figure out what that is for yourself, and your consciousness will be forever changed.)
J.