Some people are a special case who no one wants to fool with; most are irritable, argumentative, sarcastic fanatics, least wise, most of them end up that way, and have been historically dismissed by the herd as being: “dreamers, mystics, seekers-of-the-Grail” (none intended as complimentary). They can be taken to be, Philosophers, except of a stripe who will not settle down and become professors, or accept the built in inconclusiveness OF, the-Philosopher’s-way. They run the risk of eventually falling into the profession of: Writer Of Resentful Letters To The Editor. (“What in blazes is wrong with people! The world is going to hell and no one even notices!”)
These people were born with a neural set-up in the cortex that forces them to be unusually aware that humanity’s collective statements of intent and belief commonly do not coincide with their fleshy actions, and that overall, everyone seems to overlook it. These people’s mind will not let them, and they are driven to, speak out and be destined to be ignored. The herd knows what it is doing – even though it does not know. But since it does not know that it does not know what it is doing, everything works out okay, (except of course, for the strays we are discussing).
When, (as young calves), they mention to their father that the emperor/ priest/ teacher is not fleshily garbed in the same clothing they verbally promote, they are, “Shushed.” As they age, and continue to have their non-standard observations ignored, they tend to step onto the road of Grouchiness. They have no doubt as to the reality of the discrepancy they see between what men say and what they do. It is so obvious that anyone can see it. “But why don’t they?” is the increasingly frustrating question that rocks their mind.
Most of these imaginary, minority mind-dwellers-and-aficionados never get past this hole in the road. They go limp and fall over in a ditch of, vexation and anger, (but who is to tell a cow which septic field they can wallow in). There is not a chance of success for these would-be bovine revolutionists as long as their sight stays fixed-on, and their arguments remain aimed-at the doings and sayings of other cows. They will be just like them only not aware of it, for they take their criticism of the world’s “foolishness” to be proof of their separation from it, but they are in fact, more foolish than those they criticize.
J.