One man traveled the world with a certain apparatus, which he offered for display to the public, (for a nominal fee). He called it, The B.O. – The Big Obvious, and when business was not what he had expected, (and for sake of maximum-accuracy-in-advertising), he changed its name to The B.S.O. – The Big Simple Obvious. What it was, was a device which, when you got up close to it, would flash directly in your face the fact, “That if it were not for man having thoughts, man would have no problems, questions or complaints.” But almost every customer demanded their money back once they realized that the presentation of this single sentence was all that the device did. The man even set up a quiet area in an adjoining tent, which he encouraged those who had just seen the statement to use as a place to reflect-on, mull-over, muse-about and privately ponder the implications, ramifications and humor thereof. But no matter what he tried, the enterprise never enjoyed real success.
If man discovered that there was something in water that caused him some discomfort, he would not stop drinking water, nor could he, but every time he experienced the corollary discomfort, he would remember its unavoidable source. (Except of course. for idiots, imbeciles, and those otherwise mentally deficient.)
Life has certain matters arranged in man’s brain which act as their own blinders and deniers. One in particular is related to the blueprints for the above man’s apparatus.
If life actually had a perverse sense of humor, the supremo example would be its putting into man’s vocabulary the word, “hypochondria” – thereby making possible a situation wherein the majority can pretend that just a FEW mentally unbalanced men live with out-of-control-thoughts which cause only THEM to suffer imaginary ills.
If water had a smarty-ass attitude and the necessary skill, it might dilute its drinkers’ capacity to distinguish the real from the imaginary in certain areas. On one world was an animal whose primary sense was sight, but who had therein, a genetic weakness. While its overall and peripheral sight was excellent, it was blind to anything right in front of it.
J.