The City Only Heeds Maxims That Are Extensions of the Known
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10/01/1990
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Summary
#707 Oct 1, 1990 – 1:09
Notes by TK
Kyroot to :10. All SL/secondary level systems are self-referring since all info is connected to its source. Man is the ultimate and only SL. The interest in transcendental info is the seeking for unconnected info, for non-self-referring knowledge. But what City man would pay any heed to info not referring to its source? Only the quotations of historical import are paid heed, the extension of the known. Such info only represses variety. The intellect can’t think about what it can’t connect. There is no knowledge possible of any system outside the self-referencing system; thus there is no alternative to being self-referring.
The ever-popularity of “bad news”. Everybody is instantly electrically caught up in the replay, then the elaboration of bad news. Bad news is perpetuated by repetition, righteous repetition which substitutes for variety.
The News
05/02/90-(1)
…and Kyroot said:
What’s the sense
In numbering the pages
If you’re just going to Keep them in order anyway.
05/02/90-(2)
…and Kyroot said:
“You may”,
Said one frothy father,
“Jolly well ignore
The admonition concerning
‘Minding your own business’
For, my boy, I say, Ahoy;
In the City
Everybody’s business
IS everybody’s business
05/02/90-(2.5)
…and Kyroot said:
No one yet comprehends
the full, practical applications of electricity.
05/02/90-(3)
…and Kyroot said:
“There’re no stale doughnuts in heaven.”, said he, “And why is that, Pa Pa?” was asked,
“Because”, he said, “There are no yesterdays.”
· 05/02/90-(3.5)
…and Kyroot said:
When it came to in-town braggin’ rights this one guy claimed he was so tall he could stand on a chair.
05/02/90-(4)
…and Kyroot said:
There have been
At least several people
In history
Who did things that
Several other people didn’t like.
-05/02/90-(4.5)
…and Kyroot said:
Just because an explanation doesn’t explain anything doesn’t mean it’s not an explanation.
05/02/9045)
…and Kyroot said:
To complete your education
In the City
You may cease leaning on that wall And commence leaning on this one.
(Registrar’s Footnote:
Those interested in Graduate work may Substitute the word,
“Pushing” for “Leaning,.”).
.05/02/90-(5.5)
…and Kyroot said:
Just before noon one Monday
a man’s partner suddenly turned and asked,
“If the reports didn’t
tell you how bad things are
would you KNOW how bad things are?”
05/02/90-(6)
…and Kyroot said:
Might I submit
Some good news
For the religiously wired;
Faith is not dead
Everyone still believes in what they have.
05/02/90-(6.5)
…and Kyroot said:
That cryptic sign slung up near Sol
actually reads as:
“In This Part Of The Universe
Un-Connected Ideas Are Prohibited On Week-Ends
And Otherwise Not Allowed Monday Thru Friday.”
05/02/90-(7)
…and Kyroot said:
The
“Long March Of Words” Has been such
That the guy who
Invented movable type Had to move.
.05/02/90-(7.5)
…and Kyroot said:
Men make predictions
to compensate for not knowing what’s going to happen.
05/02/90-(8)
…and Kyroot said:
One dude
In partial subversive dress
Told some friends,
“If you have substantial
Intercourse with the City
And sometimes feel like you’re
‘Going crazy’ – don’t worry about – there’s your answer!”
r 05/02/90-(8.5)
…and Kyroot said:
Reading hint for subversive philosophy students: The intellects of famous men turn coy when they run out of connections.
05/02/90-(9)
…and Kyroot said:
You know your work is finished When you’ve joined the majority.
(Country thoughts,
Take me home…)
,05/02/90-(9.5)
…and Kyroot said:
Lots of people say they wants to see, but not many wants to look.
05/02/90-(10)
…and Kyroot said:
A question
Making the spheres
In the “Poli-Sci” Department
Of a certain
Nearly, near-by university:
“Is THE ‘Grand Right’
Of man the right of the
Ignorant to be lead by the wise?, or
The right of the wise to have the ignorant to lead around?”
(I tremble to think what might be going on In the Philosophy and Home Economics sections)
05/12/90-(10.5)
…and Kyroot said:
Everything segues into everything else.
05/02/90-(11)
…and Kyroot said:
Regarding the labyrinth of
Mortal affairs,
A certain Pa Pa informed his
Kid Kid thusly,
“If all that seems available
To be done seems somehow
Too close,
Too familiar,
Too simple,
Go ahead with it,
And by so doing
The more exotic,
Unexpected, and complex
Will be discovered.”
…..(And with what
Seemed to me to be
A dollop of vacillation, Kyroot added):
And what could be more appropriate
For children than “kiddy philosophy”.
05/02/90-(11.5)
…and Kyroot said:
The bus stop
is not the only place to catch a bus.
05/02/90-(12)
…and Kyroot said:
(One Revolutionist “camp-follower” had this to say):
“Those who seem to
Toil the hardest for Life
Have about them,
A certain – rudeness,
(Or at least, abruptness),
But least we become distracted
By this observation
We might note that they only
Do a faithful imitation of their employer.”
,05/02/90-(12.5)
…and Kyroot said:
This salesman
who used to be in women’s clothes and farm equipment
says that “thanks to my comments”
he has about come to the conclusion
that if the “truth” was really such a “big deal”
everybody wouldn’t be making such a big deal about. it.
05/02/90-(13)
…and Kyroot said:
Things
“Totally without merit”
Are about the last free maps Most service stations stock.
05/02/90-13.5)
…and Kyroot said:
Everyone looks for an excuse (or at least an explanation)
for what they do – except a Revolutionist.
105/02/90-(14)
…and Kyroot said:
This one guy,
After carefully considering
The costs of having brand new thoughts,
And even of refurbishing his older ones,
Decided to apply a corporate name
To his several mental efforts;
He began referring to them as – “The Overhead Brothers”.
05/02/90-(15)
…and Kyroot said:
One certain grandfather,
Wearing a kindly grandfather mask,
Whispered to the little nipper,
“To really believe that,
‘Originality is everything’
Is to ignore the possibility
That your singular contribution sucks.”
…(P.S.: The kid told me later
That he believed the mask To be some sort of trick.)
-05/02/90-(15.5)
…and Kyroot said:
In the City,
for a ritual to be “fantastic” it must simply be silly.
05/02/90-(16)
…and Kyroot said:
A dull king Can even make
Taxation unexciting.
05/02/90-(17)
…and Kyroot said:
After blowing clear
His neural spit-valve,
The old bopster growled to the kid,
“Playing cliches in a different key,
Or laying on the blues scale
Still won’t cover up the taste of tripe.”
05/02/90-(18)
…and Kyroot said:
The “breach of habit” Is the ultimate
“Breach of the peace”.
.05/02/90-(18.5)
…and Kyroot said:
A man with an irritable hair cut
tries to sum up one aspect in this way,
(says he),
“Hey,
history, tradition, antiquity – Hey,
don’t jive me,
the past ain’t no more than
a bunch of damn connections.”
, 05/02/90- -(19)
…and Kyroot said:
If,
Toward the end of the show,
During the”Double-Up Super Prize Round”,
You’re offered the choice of either
A large brain, or a big heart,
Tell ’em you’ld prefer the carry on luggage.
05/02/90-(20)
…and Kyroot said:
For many a year
Did this one ole timer
Ofttimes say,
“It’s all according to how you look at it.”,
‘Til one day the kid inquired,
“Is there not,
Dear Dad,
Anything you have to
Add to that?”,
“Yeah”, he replied,
“You also don’t HAVE to look at it.”
,05/02/90-(21)
…and Kyroot said:
From this very universe a guy writes to say that
HE believes I simply “make all this up.”
…but then Kyroot said, “Hold it”:
This morning,
from the same general area
comes word that this other guy
thinks that all the stuff I write about
actually HAPPENED to me.
(I don’t know which of the two
is the most insulting and enlightening…)