Man’s Intellect Only Domain Where Weak Thoughts Can Dominate
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#908 Dec 15, 1991 – 1:00
Notes by TK
Kyroot to :22. Self-ref is an intellectual self-regulation system. All human Secondary Level World behavior is based on self-ref. There is no difference between an ignoramus and a sophisticated expert as regards their knowledge being derived from the collective pool Man’s intellect is the only domain where undeserving (weak) leaders (thoughts) can be in charge.
Cf.: Primary Level World wolf-back dominance by strongest wolf. Men will always Seek an external authority to submit to: collective wisdom. Submission occurs when an external source is taken seriously—agree or disagree. Knowledge is not alive w/o half of civilization rejecting/disbelieving it
The News
Over at one freight terminal they call “back-up tracks” what they are — graveyards.
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Only in the kingdom of man’s intellect are potential lions allowed to be lead by practicing jackals.
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Although this one man pretended that he always, “Knew what he meant,” it never really made any sense until he suddenly realized where the term, “What people mean,” actually came from.
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Second graders aren’t looking for a leader much past the third.
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One chap offered himself Most Favored Nation Status — but only on one condition.
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{…So long as the secondary world remains based as it is, the temporary cure, at least, for most any routine problem is a bad toupee.}
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A Brief UN-natural History of Man (that you won’t see any place else): “I say, do you have a problem of spatial locations of letters?” “No, I just can’t spell.”
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In the city an expert is he who is called an expert. (And one expert said, “Why else go to the bother?”
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It could save you some “driving around time” to know that in a finite environment, what things “in large part are” — are in large part, what they are.
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Two local gods were standing around talking and the first one said, “Has your reality still got you playing that little game with the creatures?” And the second one replied, “Yep.”
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In city life, a “good job” is an acceptable reason for doing something you like. In a revolutionist’s world — same thing with thinking.
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The fight-song of this one world was, “What If We Have Feared In Vain?!!”
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Anyone who can be impressed, should be……….and will be.
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As bi-polar justice continues to flip-flop and try to get somewhere, a squirrel displayed this sign on his rear, “I Brake For Buses.”
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Who but a subversive could be embarrassed in the privacy of their own self alone?
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{…”Why is it,” asked the kid, “that at the bottom of mountains are schools for ‘Climbing,’ but no such counterpart at the top?” And the ole man replied, “If you ever start turning these questions ‘To-your-own-mind regarding-your-own-mind,’ our little conversations could improve with age. (Which, by the way, is more than can be said for most children at sea level.”)}
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One realm’s basic principle was, “Talk, Don’t Think.”
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As any creatures begin to congregate, one of the first things they do is establish the Behavior Police; then those in this position immediately begin planning for a Thought Patrol. (This offers a hangnail sketch of each man’s earthy history.)
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City news item: One guy was famous for almost next to nothing; (which put him in some v-e-r-y good company.)
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A man who had taken to living in the city only half the year, one day addressed himself, “Let me get this straight — I can laugh at what people say, but not how they look, is that it?” And his dog bud thought, “Perhaps we’re staying out here the wrong part of the year.”
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Only the neural revolutionist tries to “get-the-better-of-himself,” then moves on to a new nervous system address, and forgets to ever mention his previous one, much less speak ill of it.
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There was once two brothers who went off “In search of the truth.” And the first one said he hoped it would turn out to be “Real complex,” while his sibling said he wanted it to be “Plain and simple.” And between them both — with this combined attitude — what they finally found was somebody else’s billfold. (Knock-Knock: What is each mind’s proper discovery? Who’s There?: The invention of plagiarism. …[No, I’m sorry Captain Irony, no one called for your services.])
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At one place, one time, it took seven ordinary city men to hold down seven who were not; between them they invented local reality.
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Regarding himself, one guy announced, “Yeah I am alive-&-well, although I appear dead-&-ill.”
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{…as even cartoon characters soon learn: You can’t fool the scenery.}
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During a recent visit, one reality noted to a friend, “Even if you did let a merry go round take ’em to another planet, some of the creatures’d still complain.” (They both chuckled and spit.) As long as the carnival is open, there’s always the additional pleasure of worrying about what time it will close.
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{…Q: What is the main problem with poets and priests? A: They continue respectively to either rhapsodize or complain over what by now should be the, “Ain’t Going No Where” obvious.}
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In one era, the great uncodified fear was that those who know what they’re doing might not DO anything. (‘Tis rumored that the above was the original model for The Bust of Ambiguity.)
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Combination Educational-Update and brain-laxative: Men study many things that are useless.
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On the night before his fifteenth birthday, the king took the prince aside and advised him thusly, “There are only two things you must remember to properly exercise your authority. The first is that before you can accomplish anything else you must first — stay in power. The second thing is that you must stay in power some more.” …(There was once an artist who marveled [as he put it] at the similarities between cream, strength and stupidity [which might account for the dearth of the creative at authoritative levels. …(W-e-l-l, that and six hundred other things.)])
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One man told his brain (or maybe vice versey), “Tonight’s programming is brought to you courtesy of last night’s.”
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{…sign posted in one rebel camp: “Gentle Words And Genteel Measures Will Be Shot On Sight.”}
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If you don’t prop ’em up correctly, even the best of books will fall over.
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{…Neural Fumigator’s Rule Number 3-C: It is only the dumbest of rats who’ll desert the building when run from the basement.
…(Forest Fugitive’s Tip Number Five: A seedling with warts will grow into a tree with warts no matter how many hymns are sung, or how much hallucinogenic sap sucked.)}
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The Anti-Verbal Society, in their official publication, claims that recently discovered medieval documents reveal that all of our oceans, and several of the larger continents, were named just for a joke.
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{…due to the peculiar refraction of light in a three dimensional room, cemeteries cannot be usually recognized as libraries.}
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{…one man says he’s now begun to, “Commune with his hormones” — Yeah, I know!}
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One man says he plans to start a new religion based in part, he says, “On the several splendid lessons he’s learned from watching our show.” He says he hopes to call it, “The World’s Big Enough For Everybody…Nearly.”
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Those who see things as merely “tips of icebergs” are loath to take the bridge on the Titanic; thus does life protect itself by making many see such a name on all sailing vessels.
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More Scenes Taken From Other Realities Since You’d Never See Such Around These Parts: The professor opened the first day of Creative Writing class with these words, “We shall be operating on the assumption that none of you have any talent in this area, or else you wouldn’t be here…”
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As his conversation became less, this one man, one night said to himself, “I hardly know any thing about you.”
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Just after the soup was served, one chap stood and said, “Only the audience is fascinated by the magician’s tricks.” And across the table a man responded, “Then does that imply that only the dumb are impressed by knowledge?” (They one and all pondered this as they awaited the main course.)
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“Almost all great thinkers were recluses,” so says a letter we received, unsigned, with no return address.
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{…a man near a stump said, “I am so weary of having the obvious pointed out to me that I could dance with a snake.” And a snake said, “Oh no you don’t.”}
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One kid said to his older brother, “I bet it’s hard to be smart without being a smart aleck.” And the elder replied, “How would you know?!!” (Medicinal Moral: The significance of inter-genetic conflict on the individual is matched only by its irrelevancy. …[A lad, previously diagnosed as, “Having-a-problem,” asks if this idea ever went by the professional name of, “Wrestling The Impossible Is To Pre-Match Concede The First Two Falls.”])
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Man’s intellect is the only known field that believes seed and rain are extraterrestrial phenomena.
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{…over some hot coffee in the concession tent, the knife thrower told a clown, “You do know that they wouldn’t come see us if they thought we lived here in town?!!”}
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Some of the older drivers who still hang out at that cosmic truck stop like to tell of the place where everyone was “Born in a fog, but as soon as they accepted the collective’s road maps, were issued faux running lights.” …(This tale, by the way, was the inspiration for that later, well known stage hit, “Bar Mitzvahed In An Eighteen-Wheeler, Doing Ninety Miles An Hour In The Dark Over A Cliff.”)
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{…from a more compelling, telling view of the city, there are but two forms of heroes: Those who can beat you up, and those you imagine exist.}
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…at the trial, one of the spectators arose and said, “If man truly know what it was that he keeps trying to say, he wouldn’t need synonyms, or a vocabulary.” (Some of those in attendance realized that the man was in the wrong court.)
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{…only those who speak are concerned over how they speak.}
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{…and, “Oh yeah”: Ideas too closely tied together can drown. …(Those not subject to regular flooding soon realize the distinction between, “Tied together,” and “connected.”)}
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In one land they believed that some men are born without a kid; they believed this was compensated for by such people finding god and discovering death.
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In an extraordinary attempt, this one man began to sleep in a foreign language. …(And a rational viewer wants to know, “In an attempt to do WHAT?” …[Let’s all slip on our dancing shoes as the Bus Driver’s Memorial Marching Band begins to play, “You’ll Never Know, Oh, You’ll Never Know.”])
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{…and a young squirrel asked his mother, “Which should be the worse insult — Telling someone ‘No,’ or talking bird-talk to beavers?” …(Long ago, over in another forest, there was a tribe of creatures who, when their engines would misfire, would take shots at service station attendants.)}
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{…Another conversation: “You can’t have grand and wondrous tales unless you imagine them.” “Well that seems plain enough.” “Oh YEAH?!!!”}
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Every day this one park philosopher showed up with the same message, “Man is the only creature capable of laughter.” And then one Tuesday someone in the crowd replied, “How about the ability to go-in-debt?” And we never saw him again.
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{…Pop Quiz: Would you prefer to owe eighty-three thousand dollars, or feel guilty?}
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Those who can’t improvise praise the ability to sight-read; and this is as it should be since a city with no written scores would be a city in decline that hardly ever was in the first place.
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{…the ordinary can only depend upon that which is dependable…(not to even mention, ordinary.)}
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{…then a young revolutionist asked, “Then what can a revolutionist depend on?” — No, no, I just made that up; no revolutionist ever asked such a question.}
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{…and one chap’s related notes observes: “Without adjectives — none of this would make any sense.”}
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{…no matter where you’re from, everybody lives close to a place where they know more than you do. …(Would you repeat that first part again?) No matter where you’re from…}
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{…one ole man only talked to the kid to be polite.}
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{…in the make believe land of “Stand In Line,” one thinking creature’s private motto was, “If it goes in ‘alphabetical order’ — it ain’t going any place.” …(And it should be noted that while this is good enough for some, it’s also good enough for others.)}
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{…rituals remain important for those who don’t know what’s going on.}
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{…rituals are to the mind what habit is to the body.}
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{…rituals and habit are siblings from the same mother.}
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{…one brother says, “The only fit hobby for a real man is to ‘Know what’s going on.'” And his brother replied, “Don’t you mean to say that the only fit hobby would be in ‘Attempting to know what’s going on?'” And the first brother said, “Maybe you could add, ‘Getting a hearing aid’ to YOUR list of possibilities.”}
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{…”I’m sorry sir, but the barometer to measure the secondary world’s atmospheric pressure has already been developed: It’s known as, De Hooman Brain.}
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So as to cover all possible man-managed contingencies, one man’s mind said it would warn him with, “One flash if they come by land, and two, if by night.”
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{…Few want to think about any trans-collective possibilities. Some want to talk about them, but even they don’t want to actually think about them.}
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{…one of our subversive correspondents sends this news item: “In spite of all that they’d done, this one reality still gave its creatures their choice of two possibilities.” (By the way, I happen to know that the first part of this story is just our reporter’s way of having a little joke.)}
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As he lay pseudo-dying, the man glanced over at himself and confessed, “The kid’s no trooper.”
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