Revolutionist Does Have an Enemy–Whatever He Already Knows
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04/22/1992
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Summary
#963 Apr 22, 1992 – 1:10
Notes by TK
Prologue to :12—NEW FORMAT: specific Kyroots to be elaborated on by J. Kyroot to :38. Commentary on requested Kyroots.
The Neural Revolutionist is a non-aligned thinker.
Constant and just-right self-ref is an efficient form of suicide.
(Non-existent) external authority will forever expand to meet man’s needs for it.
Pretense is the heart of the necessary Secondary Level World (i.e., men would not be men w/o it).
The Neural Revolutionist does have an enemy; anything that he already knows.
The News
Life — you were meant to “take it personally.”
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What the collective knows is interesting — but, a waste of time.
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The body seeks food, the mind, certainty; and one is satisfied by being satisfied, and the other so by not being so.
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Real change (that’s right, “real” change) — stays always just out of reach.
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…and Kyroot noted: Kind of like timid mice, the human mind usually runs in pairs.
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…then, speaking for the city, Kyroot noted: There is indeed a great comfort, and promise of tomorrow in laying with the dead & dying.
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One chap noted: “Looking back over my life I’m surprised at how well my hormones and enzymes have done without, ofttimes, the benefit of my personal direction.”
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…one rebel thought: The urge to “forge ahead” is the urge to have a head.
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After several years had passed, one man said he considered calling in to forgive himself, but then decided — “Why give me the satisfaction!”
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…and from the mighty, tidy, “Not Only” book, Kyroot read this excerpt: Not only are people who they think they are, they’re also where they believe they are. …(Which is another reason bus travel is so cheap and available to all.)
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One rebel kid thought, “Aren’t grown ups who believe they’re intelligent just as cute as they can be.”
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Those who sense that a merry go round is not actually going anywhere love to point to the quality of their horsey. …(A sign of mental health and frustration.)
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One ole sorehead’s advice to all who would listen: “If it’s ‘New & Improved’ take it back immediately!”
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The automated alarm system went off, “Warning! Warning! — Security has been breeched! — Repeat: Security has been breeched!” And the guy thought, “How dare someone try to get into my mind!”
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In that — “Growth is universal — problems, local,” to see human problems requires that you stare at immediate, local conditions, and keep your eyes to the very ground of your native planet.
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…and a rebel speaker announced: “Listen to your own internal Public Address System! — It is your friend. …(No it’s not, but you looked like you needed a good scare or laugh.”)
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…and Kyroot noted: With the “just right” and constant use of self-reference it can become an efficient form of suicide.
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Regarding our several (even, metaphorical, perhaps), references to life being divided up into goods and services, one listener misunderstood, and thought we said, ghosts & services.
…(But — no harm done, I suppose.)
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…then Kyroot offered this oblique though gut-wrenching notation of man’s psychological history: A man sat directly and deliberately upon the very tip of a sharp knife, and quite deliberately said, “Ow!”
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A certain mayor told his visiting nephew, “If you want to see a civilization collapse, let authors review their own books.”
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The mind’s tacit, and terrible synonym for “torture & torment” is “tomorrow.”
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Inasmuch as the revolutionist recognizes intellectual comfort as being too comfortable for his use, he also pays no heed when his ordinary mind tries to sing to him the tune, “Lean On Me, Bunky.”
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Mr. Optimists’s Tip For The Day: Non-existent, “External Authority” will forever expand to meet man’s growing needs.
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And a woman says: “Ever since your recent story regarding ‘ministers with bookmarks,’ I cannot pass a parsonage or rectory without a certain sense of uneasiness.”
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News item: The collective wise men of one city have rejected the suggestion that they call themselves, “The Institutionally Foolish.” …(They said, “Thanks, but no thanks.”)
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A man, who publishes a monthly news magazine, says that the best thing about it is that by the time it comes out everything in it is outdated and everyone knows it. …(“How genuinely neat,” he concludes.) …(And a fairly large family who watches our show en mass writes in to say; “We appreciate the times you let your little stories ‘slide’ without making some follow-up notation of how it might actually be more applicable to one’s individual inner life. Yes, we appreciate these times when you seem to treat us viewers more as intelligent, responsible adults rather than children to be preached to. We appreciate it; I don’t think it does us any good, but we appreciate it all the same.” Signed — you guessed it — “The Fairly Large Family.”)
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One of our ole sorehead regulars sends us this comment, “You don’t have to just sit around and be depressed — you can just as easily lie down and feel bad.”
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From our audience comes this letter: “As a long time viewer I trust I may be allowed to make a personal observation: I find your program much more meaningful now that you’ve adopted a more serious tone. Appreciatively Yours,” etc.
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For the mind to find local problems amidst the overall universal growth of life, it must make apparent identification of the specific time and location of the perceived flaws.
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At the beginning of each day this one conscientious god would apologize in advance for everything he might do that day; and in return he required that his creatures apologize beforehand for all that they might say that day.
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…then Kyroot (your friendly neighborhood financial advisor) offered this stock tip: Humans domesticated wild animals through an extraordinary process of man-handling them; a revolutionist does the same to himself intellectually.
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In a sense, a revolutionist does have one enemy — anything he already knows.
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…and some guy said: A proverb that doesn’t partially not make sense is sure no revolutionist one.
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The revolutionist doesn’t want to look through any one’s window more than once.
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Once you can identify all the vicious and petty emotions they may name one after you.
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A rebel’s version of anything the collective thinks about will eventually end up, stripped-down, jacked-up, and left-out-in-the-rain in his front yard.
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A man with centrifugal force on his side is one step ahead.
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Alternative Campus, Theology 101, in a nutshell: Without speech there is no good; without speech there is no evil; without speech man is a hippo on two legs (and so on to 102, which never comes.)
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The mechanical expansion of thought occurs in part through the regenerative force attempting to revive the dying one via correction and modification; thus the ordinary mind is always in pursuit of a re-birth of the old, rather than an actual new birth — which is the bailiwick of the revolution.
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Only the people believe in reform — the king knows better.
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In his struggle with the confines of sequence and reason one man concluded, “If I don’t dream, I can’t sleep.”
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Compared to local change which common sense and observation tells you must be fed by the elements and activities involved, universal growth and change seem not to be nourished at all, and is further thus rendered invisible to ordinary sight.
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In lieu of a sardine sandwich, one ole man gave his kid this advice as he left for the city: “Most everything most everyone says is meant to be taken seriously — no matter how preposterous it may sound.”
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Two guys were talking over lunch and one said, “Most of man’s art is about whining and guilt.” To which the other replied, “That’s okay, so’s his life.” …(And their waiter said if he wasn’t back in twenty years to go ahead and die and complain without him.)
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Those who accept guilt will never want for a bus…(or some additional guilt.)
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The Whisper Man sends you the following sentence courtesy of (he says) his mind, and his alleyway: “Ordinary talk is not unlike that special ‘Diplomatic Rhetoric’ wherein everybody knows that what is being said is not actually what is meant.”
…(“Wow!”, shouts a guy on the corner, “That means we’re all secret ambassadors to ourselves and to one another.” …[“Wow!”, he repeats, “Wow! — And I have no idea at all what it all means. Wow!”]
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Success that can be grabbed — without it killing itself (or you) — is “city success.” …(No intrinsic villainy involved, just something a rebel should be aware of.)
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…then Kyroot moved over to the Kiddie’s Korner and played a quiz game; “Okay children: What exists yet doesn’t exist?” “Oh!, I know, I know,” cried one, “the revolution.” “Well that’s right, but so does everything else around here.”
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Only the ordinary verbally defend their secondary position in life, and they need to — believe me, they need to.
…..and a viewer writes: “I still say that we’re all ordinary.” Dear Sir: May I say to you in all sincerity that from the mid-brain down — How true, how true.
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As local life flourishes, the clear and direct continues to coexist — to exist in the midst of the collective and institutionalized vague and complex; thus are some confused, and a few informed. …(Which is all somehow, reminiscent of that hit song from a few summers back, “Hey Baby, Surfer Girl — The Operationally Clumsy Piggy-Backs The Valid.” — [Okay, everybody in the water.])
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Item: Only the serious survive. Item correction: Only the serious survive and make a fuss about it.
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Also, regarding the fact that “Growth is universal — problems, local,” this leads to a corollary, to wit: “All proofs are fragmented and anecdotal.”
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When they were handing out publicity the real king said, “I’ll pass.”
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Cultural Tip: The difference between a museum and a mausoleum is that one is more interesting than the other.
…(Okay, okay, go ahead and laugh and get the crudeness out of your system. Okay, finished? Well settle down and now let’s have the real rebel version: The difference between a museum and a mausoleum is that neither one is more interesting than the other.
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As regarded the possibility of seeking revenge against a secondary attacker, one man thought, “Why try to make him feel worse that he had to be to go after me in the first place.”
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And a mighty city gave out a mighty cry, “We are inspired by our own folly!”
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…then Kyroot made this quick sketch of normal secondary progress: Words complicate primary reality — then seek to resolve the complications with further talk; thus is a kind of success always assured in that all complications produce new ones.
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And this letter in to the Advice Doctor: “Dear Doctor: Could it be said that one of the tricks to revolutionist thinking would be improvisation? — (Sincerely)” — Rats!, I’as just gonna say that!
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And now, this view from one chap’s head: “The secondary world is like a gigantic glue pot into which all civilized men eventually leap.
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Then Kyroot made this observation from a generally unused, operational view: From man’s intellectual position, a size-able part of the gods’ power is in their unabashed use of cliches and the mortally expected.
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One guy said, “Jeeze!, I’m coming apart.” And his nucleus said, “And not a moment too soon.”
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The sane, acceptable and collective way is to either favor the status quo, or else speak out against it; only a few men can — or care to — stick their minds into places and cracks where change itself might actually be taking place.
…..Kiddie Corollary: Ordinary children learned to “stick out their tongues” from unknowingly seeing revolutionists doing the just-mentioned.
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Real change is not anecdotal.
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The eleventh speaker at the convention arose and said, “The beginning of all illness is seriousness.” And the man scheduled to follow him suddenly stood and interrupted, “Not so! — The beginning of all illness is death.” And the first speaker sat down announcing, “I rest my buttocks and my case.”
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One guy thought:
“Drugs are to Mary
As Mary is the Lamb.”
(“Well if that be true,” one Lamb said, “I’ll scram.”)
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To a revolutionist mind a good question is just a good excuse.
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In a fit of perhaps “passing, liquid lucidity” one guy at the Ole Sorehead’s Bar slammed down his glass and declared, “Those who write about art make the philistines look like the cognoscenti.”
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Extremely secret and sensitive fact: In their spare time all political advisors are humorists.
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All ordinary wolves are driven by the back of the pack.
…..and a listener says: “That one almost makes my mouth water! — I do wish you’d go on and encourage us to really think on that one as it might apply to how our own ordinary intellectual processes work.”
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We may now avail ourselves of this Kyrootian parturition-definition: Speech: Man’s forever-fresh, post-natal solace as he continually emerges from the old.
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To teach a kid about the city mind one ole man simply gave him a stack of magazines and told him to count the number of adjectives in the headlines of articles.
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One guy’s secret personal motto was, “If you’ve got to get a permit for it — forget it!” …(Oh yeah — his double secret slogan is, “Just go ahead and do it and worry about permission later.”
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Still additional aspects of growth being universal and problems local: “All anomalies are local.”
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You can catch more flies with honey than you can with a bus schedule; (which anyone who’s ever ridden a bus can darn well tell you).
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…and Kyroot the ole range rider spat and said: A man who’d lean on his ancestors or parents is the same kinda side-winder who’d try and hog tie a random. (He spat again and moseyed off.)
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…then our Hollywood theological reporter sends in this note: Actors want to be behind the camera for the same reason priests envy prostitutes.
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The true impact of historical events is always after-the-fact in that what occurred was collective and generational, not immediate and individual.
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In response to many viewer requests for clarification of my terms, just consider that a ‘neural revolutionist’ is a non-aligned thinker and that’ll about cover it.
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All “local conditions” begin with the words, “Let me tell you what kinda guy I am…”
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To “be a guy” you gotta tell.
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If within what seems “real” to man’s mind there does not reside what also seems “pretend,” then his needed secondary world will be too brittle and harsh to ever take wing.
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…and this household tip from Kyroot: Let the collective do all the worrying for you — they don’t mind.
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A correspondent says, “Sometimes when you’re talking about other people I get the feeling that you’re not actually talking about other people.”
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City students — Listen up: To be an expert you gotta quote, quote, quote, and steal, steal, steal.
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In times of dire emergencies one king would cry out the orders, “Shoot the young! — The old are dead already.”
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A man’s ultimate insult comes from his genes; the difference between a revolutionist and the King Of Pakistan is that one of them knows it.
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…and Kyroot observed: An artist with an idol is like an apologetic bullet.
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…then a rebel friend of your’s remarked; although men obviously don’t want to talk about it — just being alive is the attempt to change.
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Everyone can name their neighborhood and tell you that they live in the city, but only a rebel’s mind can identify his universe.
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Stardust can’t exist in a vacuum — a civilian vacuum.
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…now, hot-off-the-wires, this Kyrootian hint: The gap between the universal and the local can be grasped and narrowed by a shift in your concept of time.
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The dead can’t help a rebel much.
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…and Kyroot closed shop for the night by saying, “Okay, one more: A revolutionist’s mind is like a kite set free.”