The Regenerative, The Dying, and The Un-involved
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#960 Apr 15, 1992 – 1:00
Notes by TK
Kyroot to :34. Renaming of the three forces in a triaxial universe: the “Regenerative”, the “Dying” and the “Uninvolved”. W/o the Uninvolved, the first two cannot exist/operate. The Regenerative is almost a blind, mechanical, low-level rebellion, pushing against the Dying force, but not on the basis of eradication, obliteration; rather, to correct and modify it, to prop it up by finding faults to eliminate—in short, to dance with it. Rebirth vs. new birth of the Neural Revolution.
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It was not uncommon for some of the passengers — (as soon as they realized that the engines had been started) — to want off the plane.
…..and a first-time person says: “I liked you better on TV than in person.
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Intellectually — those with the least to fear, fear the most.
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The greater the number of people involved, the more comfortable they’ll be with dead ideas.
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A lot of people have always suspected what was going on, but damn few really want to know.
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On nice days, most sane people think that they’re probably “on the right track” — which is sufficient. …(“Wow!”, he exclaimed, “Ain’t it just great to be sane and sufficient.”)
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A mind that’ll believe any thing will believe everything.
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A person who thinks only what their brain thinks has missed certain opportunities.
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A man with complimentary popcorn doesn’t care what’s showing — which is why the revolutionist gets in free.
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Then just prior to a major local holiday, one ole man took his twin sons to the water plant and told them, “Forget all that crap about ‘spiritual journeys,’ and ‘mystical quests,’ and all that other good metaphysical tommyrot; I’ll tell you right here, and right now — for free!, that a completed man is a dead man.”
…(This does not, of course, take into account an individual revolutionist [here and there].)
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…and Kyroot gave this heretofore unknown historical fact: It took life several years to fully realize the benefits of men giving one another advice. …(Chew it, swallow it, and don’t “pass it along.”)
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An ole sorehead who watches these shows sometimes says he has his own take on our secondary world as relates to man’s primary one: He says that what it all amounts to is a giving of a voice to that which was too dumb to have one of its own to begin with. …(And a certain hot-headed gentleman in response to this said, “Boy! — you better not let my stomach or pecker hear you say that!”)
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One man used to seriously read books — until he found out how dumb they were.
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“Well sure,” said one neural bundle, “The civilized can afford to be polite.”
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Okay (Kyroot added): One man used to seriously read books until he found out they were all written by other humans.
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One speaker in yesterday’s city park had this to say to the awaiting crowd (many of whom could not fathom the use of “yesterday” as a modifier in the sentence thus far, yet said he): “Men, not being able to see over the edge of their world, invented religion, drugs, insanity, and the fear-of-death — which, surprisingly enough — has served him pret-tee darn well.”
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…then Kyroot noted on your behalf: If it took the least amount of understanding or insight to criticize man, then so many of us would be geniuses and philosophers that the whole definition of “intelligence” would have to be severely revised.
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In an effort to help clarify his position, one god changed his name from “What-not” to Why-not.
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After the man had taken to the dais, and shuffled his papers sufficiently, he said, “Life lets men see what it wants them to see.” And several people immediately began to stagger about the room as they, for the very first time, realized that they were functionally sightless. (None, however, later thanked the speaker.)
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The even-handed nature of Justice in a finite world is such that everyone, regardless of their station in life, may bitch-at-will.
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While visiting the familiar grave sites in his library, one man thought, “Being able to pay homage to your ancestors is almost as good as having murdered them originally.”
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Even with man’s mind running at its freest, there are no such things as “universal complaints” — only additional examples of restrictive, local thinking.
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One seditious ole man told the kid, “If you still don’t see how impertinent the revolution can seem, just look at what everybody else considers to be important.”
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And this letter just in to the Advice Doctor: “Dear Doctor: Why does a man with a plumbing disorder suddenly think of roofers as offering ‘the most for your money’?” Dear Sirs (I am assuming that more than one person had a hand in this inquiry): You have presented yet another question whose answer is still found within the consideration as to “why” men have two eyes, two lips, two sides to their brain, and seem locked into the idea that life is controlled by the dual forces of, “Good & Vanilla.”
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For some, shopping is to the secondary what half-hearted hunting would be to the primary.
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A brief outline of “Life In The Civilized”: Everyone has something to hide: Anything anybody has to hide ain’t worth hiding. …(Program note: Be sure and stay tuned right after these brief commercial messages for another exciting episode of that semi-mysterious radio drama, “The Closet Knows.”)
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In this particular ballroom — I mean, finite universe, in all dances, each partner — I mean, force is either regenerating, dying, or not dancing.
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Even while attempting to “have new thoughts” many people still stamp their envelopes with the notation, “No Postage Necessary If Mailed Within My Own Expectations.”
…..and a person who has started following some of this says: “The Neural-Revolution thing is not actually all that weird or strange; the way I see it from what you’ve been saying is that all you’ve got to do is take whatever you were wanting to think, and set it aside; then take whatever would have conflicted with that, and put it aside also, then find whatever could be remaining and think about that. Not wishing to be presumptuous, but I do feel I am on the right track here, and yet looking back over that I have just written, it seems so simple on the surface, but any reality of its actual execution staggers even my wildest imagination.”
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A certain man with cable service (and other modern amenities), says he now thinks of our programs as a kind of “indoor glue.”
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…then Kyroot served up another of those delicious historical tiddie-bits: One kingdom melted down all of their guns to make even bigger guns.
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And one guy thought to himself: “How come I can’t take a hint when it falls on me?! — How come I don’t get something special out of the fact that there are no ‘Universal’ anomalies.”
…(“Hey,” said he later, “I should think more to myself maybe.”)
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From the protected confines of the alleyway the Whisper Man sends you these words: “Those who know a lot, say a lot; those who don’t know a lot, say a lot; what are ya gonna do?!!.”
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There is a young man wandering about in the local woods near the city who says he seeks the services of a Rebellious Optometrist: He says that the constant exposure to collective thinking has given him an “I disorder.”
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Real change can’t be explained.
…..then Kyroot added: Yep!, you guessed it: Real growth can’t be explained either.
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While traveling out alone, on a misty mountain road, one chap began to ponder in this manner: “If I could compile a complete list of all the secondary activities man has thus far invented and pursued, I do believe I might have something of personal significance, or else part of a homemade dictionary, when I could have bought a paperback one down at the drugstore for a buck-fifty.”
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One ole man drove quickly past his house, tossing out this note to his family, “The foreclosure date on stupidity is flexible.”
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On a small planet you never hear of any more (as if you ever did), the creatures began to call the gods by the title, “The Assumed Superiors.” …(Who do you think got the biggest kick out of this?…)
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More tips to save you time, money and anything else you imagine you have: Once you realize that you are born with everything you need, and that after that it’s all just a question of upkeep, you can further discover that there’s only one real bargain in life, and that’s just “being alive.” …(Of course, if just being here breathing and thinking doesn’t strike you as interesting [or at least monumental], then you do have a slight [although extremely expensive], problem.) …and a listener writes: “I just love it when you manhandle modifiers, and mis-use the expected order of comparative examples.” (It’s signed: “Keep It Up, And May All Our Intellectual Anticipations Go Straight To Hell: Over-&-Out, Yours Truly,” etc.)
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Whining is for ordinary people what seriousness might be for a rebel.
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One man who lived in a curious city attempted to construct a new mode of sequentiality which he ultimately exemplified in this description: “If you can’t eat — diet; and if you can’t diet — starve; and if you can’t starve, then die! And thus is success always within our grisly grasp.” …(Although I know you’ll find it hard to believe, there have been some who claimed that they found collective thought and wisdom rather “off-putting.” [But don’t let that depress you none, you just go right on with whatever you were doing.])
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Outside of energy there are no economics.
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…then Kyroot mentioned — The Dissident’s Dilemma: To be serious is to stay sane; to be sane is to remain serious.
…(“Oh my god!”, exclaimed one quaint literary allusion to his equally picturesque partner, “Let’s get the hell out of this parable quick!”
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The older part of one mind, in response to its younger, rebellious area, which showed no allegiance to the past, and which was constantly attempting to replace already established thought, began to think of this counter-activity as, “Promiscuous Interruptus.”
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Collective thinking is generally not too far out of line regarding what should be the ultimate destination, but as far as “what bus we should be taking”…well…
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The past is always too comfortable — which is why the dead just love it.
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One man ripped the exclamation mark, and underlining keys off his typewriter after concluding that only life really knew how to “Make a point!!”
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…then Kyroot offered this health “cheer-er-upper” for routine thinking: It’s not the mind’s fault if it finds fault.
…(And an unemployed librarian’s assistant says, “Are you trying to slip in yet another screwy definition of what being civilized is?”)
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There is only one form of insurance, and that is to live.
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Standing in a goo field park, one neural lobe addressed the others, “If man was not a ‘work-in-progress,’ if man was not a living ambiguity, if man was not a functioning uncertainty, then man could finally be ‘one thing or the other’.” And a lamb raised a paw and asked, “What would what be?” — “Dead!”, replied the speaker, “Dead.”
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And a viewer writes: “I’ll listen to you talk about psychology, politics, religion, and all the other aspects of mans’ culture and civilization, but whenever you start on brain chemistry I turn you right off.” (Signed: “One Who Knows What’s Good For Him.”)
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During a recent weekend outing one hip city told several of its young cousins, “Hey don’t get all caught up in it; men just take politics, and money and all that other stuff seriously because they don’t have anything better to do.”
…..Penology Finding: Only the common confess — and what they have to reveal…well, forget it.
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One ole sorehead kicked over the spittoon, set up drinks for the house (since the bar was deserted), and announced, “If you’ll just take the time to sit down quietly, and just consider all that life has done for you — you might want your money back!”
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…and one guy said: “Another cute thing about life is how those people who overtly claim to be seeking something special are kept to the far corners of the stardust ballroom.”
…..(Interlude): A man wonders: “Is it possible for life to over do this ‘energy-transfer’ thing?” And an answer answers: “Is it possible for a question to be too stupid?!”
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In one universe, after you were created you had your choice; you could either have lips, a nose, or eyes.
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Please — Please! stand back and not let the children get too near: Another Adage Update: You cannot know where you are going unless you remember where you’re going. …(While two of the Three Proverb Brothers were out for a stroll the first one said, “I don’t know which is the easiest target — overweight clay pigeons, or cliches!”)
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Every time this one local god would hear its creatures mention the idea of, “artificial intelligence” he’d get his biggest laugh of the day.
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A man with a sign in the park had the sign read: “Life makes it hard on some just so they’ll know who to respect.”
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Being a neural revolutionist narrows down the field of whose good graces you might want to get into.
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Civilized eyes see the secondary as capable of eventually winning; those who clean up the streets aren’t so sure.
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A certain follower of “things synaptically seditious” says he now looks upon how fresh, non-aligned thoughts overtake his older, collective ones as a kind of “humorous homicide.”
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The business of life is to see that you get to work on time — or else explain why you weren’t — or be sick and have a good excuse to stay home — or just continually complain about the whole arrangement. …(If life is management, your mind is the time clock.)
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One frisky ole man sat the kid down on the porch and told him, “If you’re trying to make a point and you’ve got more than two examples to use — you’ve got too many; if you have less than two, you still have too many.”
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Kyroot’s Fashion Tip & Joke Of The Century: Man is made to believe that his “individual personality” is a suit that his environment has handed him, and that its fit, or lack there of, directly determines how he thinks. …(Who but –“har-de-har” — good ole droll, sweet life would make men put on their trousers first and underwear last.)
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Far beyond ordinary religious guesses and doubts, do note: The dead can be revived, or else the secondary could not exist.
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One guy had an alarm installed, but it didn’t do him any good since he never tried to break in anyway.
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In a finite ballroom, one end of the nervous system calls, and the other end answers — then the first end says, “Who said that?” — And thus the dance rolls on.
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Near the Customs Office is a man who, after being some exposed to revolutionist ideas, began to sometimes think of his own thinking as an author, and revolutionist thinking as the “Editor-with-a-vengence.” …(Then so as to give this page the required foot-noted-addendum, Kyroot instantly made up the following historical sidebar: Over in a neighboring galaxy the little children had a song they’d sometimes sing as they went about their happy duties of being little children in a neighboring galaxy [and it went like this]: “Stripped ideas are hipped ideas.” …[But suddenly, popping up from nowhere, a gentleman with a wagon asks, “Then why are the most intelligent among us also the most verbose? — Answer me that, mister epilogue-king!”]
…..then after things had calmed down a bit, Kyroot added: There is a certain way in which you can demand an answer so that one is never possible. …(You may file this under, “Continuing Good News For City Minds.”)
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After blowing his whistle, knocking on the door, and giving the Official Postman’s Secret Hand Gesture, the mailman delivered this letter to the Advice Doctor: “Dear Doctor: Is it better to be drunk, or serious?”
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Being smarter than everyone else is not much of a big deal — unless you’re not.
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As is established as proper, in certain areas of collective thinking there is no support for a “misspelled endeavor.”
…(Why even in the primal jungle, one lion won’t follow another one if the other one is dressed funny.)
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…then Kyroot offered this Travel Advisory: They don’t serve hope or fear on most bus flights — but not to worry! — everyone brings their own! …(except maybe a revolutionist, and he ain’t gettin’ on here any way.)
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And yet another viewer writes: “Dear Kyroot & Co.: How come I enjoy what you say but don’t like it?” …(“Attention patrons: Stick around — five minutes after the concession stand closes we will be showing a special ‘Midnight-Flick’ [at no additional cost], tonight’s sci-fi feature is entitled, “Brains In Orbit — Anuses Still At Cape Canaveral.”)
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The lubricant for this universe’s merry go round is not grease, but stardust.
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Just a bit before six, a new speaker took to the soap box in the park and declared, “Every man is his own best friend.” And the peaceful wooded area was soon filled with the soft sounds of several people committing suicide.
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…then Kyroot (pretending to be a city) said: Life runs a background check on everybody, and guess what? — You passed!
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…then (just for fun, or something equally as informative) Kyroot passed this along: “The 7 Rules Of The Revolutionist” — (as per the notation of one knock-about notator):
1. A revolutionist is thrifty.
2. A revolutionist is humble.
3. A revolutionist is truthful.
4. A revolutionist is respectful of his superiors.
5. A revolutionist is always trying to better himself
in life.
6. A revolutionist deeply identifies himself with his
religion, culture and nationality, and is sternly
defensive in this regard.
7. A revolutionist is a REAL kidder.
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When secondary things go wrong, men try to leave town; if primary ones ever begin to, I’d keep a close eye on just where life is!
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“The View,” as seen through local, anecdotal eyes: The roots of everything are in yesterday; the flowers are due to bloom tomorrow, but today! — I’m the son-of-a-bitch who has to water the damn thing!
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Sometimes when it’d get real rainy, and cold, and dark, and damp, and life-like, this one kid would look off and dream, “I can’t wait to grow up and not have to think any more.”
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The reason a triaxial dance is possible in this universe is because men can see only two dancers.
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In a futuristic sense, to “know a lot” you don’t have to know more than others — just more than yourself.
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Then one squirrely ole man told his kid, “Hey, everybody’s not really whining and complaining — it’s just your imagination! — that’s all it is, just your imagination.”
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One day one man thought, “What if everybody in the world is laughing at me?!…” And a little later thought, “What if everybody in the world is laughing at me because I’m the only one who doesn’t know the secret?!…” Then even further later on, also thought, “And what if everybody is laughing at me because I’m the only one who doesn’t know the secret, and the secret is that I’m the only one taking all this shit seriously?!!!” (He then shuddered and quit thinking about it.”
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Staggering about the periphery of the ballroom one man began to mutter, “If the primary world is a whole note, and the secondary, sixteenths, then what does that make me!” And a potted plant offered, “A long rest?…”
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One man said he could usually identify new thoughts that might hold some evolutionary promise by the fact that they could refuse to associate with you without dis-liking you.
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After listening to some of his subjects palaver for a while one monarch said to himself, “If you think things are silly now, you just oughta be king for a while.”
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One man’s secret, personal motto was so insightfully obscene, that life once considered taking him on as a partner.
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Just off shore was always a mysterious whale.
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And a viewer writes: “Dear Kyroot: Sometimes I can’t tell if you’re fooling or not; are you ever fooling? Sincerely,” etc.
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For the final number of the night, the band announced they would play, “Gravitation Takes A Holiday,” but what they attempted instead was stardust.