No freedom – no change; no freedom – no growth. Tigers are prisoners in the tiger cage and can never change their stripes. Only a creature not totally programmed, with an ability to wander about in unexplored territories, can expand itself and change, but also, (apparently), no regulation to freedom and no controllable growth and change. Thus it be that man is born outside of a cage, not told what to do, given no restrictions on what he can do. He is told he is free to do whatever he wants, yet has a message imprinted in his brain which informs him that he is responsible for whatever he does so he had better watch it and regulate what he does.
Everyone feels the need to regulate their self, but no one believes they know how. Ordinary men do not feel that they are at all capable of determining which of their actions need to be regulated, and by what standard; they automatically accept that it must be some outside standard. (It is the same as the relationship. between a piece of machinery and the human operator, who decides on its mode of operation), ergo culture. “I do not know how to regulate myself and live life so someone else must” – an individual, (a guru), or humanity collectively, (society’s norms) – that is how it goes.
Everyone feels the need to regulate their self and everyone is annoyed by it. Ordinary people, (so to speak) learn-to-live-with-it. After all, the inherent annoyance is a part of the self-regulation. But for the select, non-ordinary with exotic neural tastes, this annoyance is a dinner killer. The feeling that you should regulate yourself is inescapable – the annoyance is not so certain. The need for self-regulation can be understood, yet remain intact, but understanding the annoyance releases its grip around your throat.
“Yes, I may inherently be a clumsy, forgetful, sometimes stupid person,
but now that I know what is going on and what life is really about
I am no longer needlessly concerned about such matters enough
to even make this comment. Do you get it? Do you know
what I am talking about?”
“Well, do you? Do you understand what he is saying?
J.