Admit It, You Don’t Know What to Think Until You Know What Others Think
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06/01/1992
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#979 Jun 1, 1992 – 1:00
Notes by TK
Kyroot to :26. The history of man appears to be a history of failure, but note the bias in man’s view and recall (D-force bias).
Ordinary minds—fancy or plain—don’t know what to think until they know what others think.
There’s a kind of corpus callosum between man’s Primary and Secondary hemispheres that no one much wants to think about.
The News
One man made-up a cast of characters to populate the
imaginary world he concocted; and in return they invented him.
***
A man with a list of commandments needs no headstone.
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If you’re gonna bad-mouth the past you can’t hardly imagine
what it can do to you!
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A man with “personal problems” is an archaeologist without a
degree.
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The history-of-man appears to be a history of failure; a
close study of man’s history of himself reveals a certain
biasness of sight, and recall.
***
Graffiti spotted on the side of a passing comet: “Men
invented the concept of sin cause stupidity was so-o
embarrassing.”
***
All races are won by an invisible horse. …(The difference
between congenial/vexing thought and something a little more
interesting.)
***
On the “Good News Board” in the Ole Sorehead’s Bar was
recently seen this notice, “Cheer up! — A man with certainties
is already more than half way dead.”
***
…and Kyroot noted: One man says he has it all figured
out; he says that the main thrust of life, looked at as a whole,
is about “this and that.”
***
A man who can hoard his own thoughts can be a hermit without
having to grow a beard, leave town, or any of that other crap.
***
Today’s “Conversation:” “The human intellect is like a
roulette wheel.” “Yeah! — cause it has so many possibilities?!”
“Well-l-l…that’s not exactly what I had in mind…”
***
And from the Advice Doctor’s mail stack we find this
inquiry: “Dear Doctor: I want to re-do my house; should I start
on the roof, or in the basement?”
***
…and Kyroot observed: Even a revolutionist can mistake
the aging process for increased wisdom and tolerance; but should
he do so for more that five seconds at a time he should be
flogged, laughed at, and forced to eat rutabagas.
***
An ole man told the kid, “The desire to ‘clean up’ after
one’s self is not unrelated to the urge to kill yesterday.”
…(A viewer in a parka writes to say: “It seems to me that
you’re either taking shots at the past, or it’s taking shots at
you.”)
***
On a world some where else, one creature attempted to look
upon his fellow beings as verbs — not nouns, and thus release
them from captivity.
***
A man with three large shopping bags hailed a bus, stuck his
head in the doorway and said, “Metaphors are substitutes for
parts of reality that no one wants to think about.” And as the
driver pulled away he shouted after them, “As if it did any
good!”
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Ordinary minds (both famous and plain) know not what to
think til they know what others do. …(The Continuing History
Of Man’s Mental Progress In Less Than Twenty Words.)
***
In one city a poet’s worth was determined by how often he
mentioned death; this proved so successful that they later began
to calculate their taxes on the same basis.
***
The Kyroot made additional note of more of the “Generally
Unrecognized Advantages Of Being A Neural Rebel:” Whenever a
revolutionist is stupid it’s not just once — but on every
occasion always twice. …(“What I love about saving resources
in the secondary world,” said one chap, “is that it doesn’t do
you the least bit of good.”)
***
Man lives in a herd, and some continue to complain of the
smell while others say it’s not as bad as it used to be; thus,
are the two wings of the Civilization Party.
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There are no soap operas in the primary world. …(This
evening’s puzzle: What’s wrong with the following syllogism?:
“Those who can’t think can’t worry; those who can’t worry can’t
be creative; those who aren’t creative aren’t fully human.”ù Tell
us: Where’s the defect in this affair?)
***
Most people’s principal hobby is “How they look:” Their
main intellectual pastime, wondering what others thinkù of how
they look. …(“Just think,” thought Plato as he sat around the
tomb thinking, “Were it not for the overwhelming, mute, blind
power and authority of the primary world we couldn’t have the
luxury of a secondary one to sit around commenting on how dumb
the primary one is.”)
***
Without the idea of a god the ordinary mind would have
nothing to which to compare itself. …(That, along with the
notion of “tomorrow.”)
***
Then for the intellectually kiddie-like, Kyroot handed out
some more from that superfluous box of, “More Evidence That Life
Is Healthy And Will Survive;” (today’s portion of purported
proof being thusly): Worms grow into dragons, and the latter
unknowingly trample the former.
***
Those interested, but not quite sure how to actually be a
revolutionist often like to speak of the suffering and sacrifice
required to be one. …(“Remember,” said the coach, “When the
ordinary are in doubt they’ll punt; but when we’re so positioned
we’ve got to drop-kick the ordinary themselves.” …[Oh, all
right already — for youse of a diverse sports persuasion: One
guy was his own home run.])
***
To a revolutionist, ordinary cerebral memory is like fake
Hollywood blood giving life support to B-movie vampires.
***
Regarding an upcoming speech he was to deliver the king
announced that he would also be bringing along one of the
people’s favorite singers, and on the scheduled day, surprised at
the large turnout, the monarch opened his remarks by saying, “I know
I shouldn’t ask, but how many of you came just because of the
appearance of our special guest today?” And after everyone
raised their hand he said, “I just knew it.” Pay-Off: Good
ideas don’t ask stupid questions.
***
After having let the kid’s birthday slip by, the ole man
tied a note around a rock and threw it at him on Wednesday:
“It’s up to you to do everything that needs to be up to you to
do.”
***
When they would reach crucial times, and decisive junctures,
this one man would say to his universe, “If I go I’m taking part
of you with me.” …(Tis only the beginner aficionado of the
voice-throwing-arts who troubles over the question of who is the
actual star of the act — the ventriloquist or the dummy?!
…[Oh yeah, this is also why people who believe that the gods
talk to them are considered crazy, and why those who consider
them so are also nuts.])
***
A speaker in city park had this to say to the crowd, “There
is no such thing as what man calls his ‘personal individuality,’
and even if there is, it doesn’t amount to anything.”
***
Only those who don’t understand the nature of the secondary
world believe that milk comes only from cows, eggs from chickens,
and ideas from men. …(“Are you still trying to tell me that
life thinks?!!” No sir, we’re sure not trying to tell you
anything.)
***
…and Kyroot noted: One man says that at times he can
almost hear his body silently thinking; (such as when he runs and
the running itself lives.) …(Man’s primary world is only as
far away as the civilized say it is.)
***
And this letter into the Advice Doctor: “Dear Doctor: The
news-of-the-world gives me the blues; is the news of the world
and my own news the same thing? The news of the world gives me
the blues — why do I watch the news?” Dear Sir: I ask you
also: Why do you wear shoes?
***
Once this one man clearly realized that all human emotions
are caused by the present, temporary hormonal balance in his
blood stream, he reminded his brain that it did not have to ride
every single bus that passed through the neighborhood.
***
Art local — originality — you guessed it!
***
Another chapter from that questionable work, “The So-Called
Truth Will Out Whether The Secondary World Wants To Hear About It
Or Not” (and now I quote, beginning on page 37): “No matter how
fancy they may have been acting, when squirrels hear that rat
exterminators are coming to call, they’ll pull a Houdini.”
***
And since Captain Obvious has been unavoidably detained this
evening, Kyroot took up the slack and pointed this one out to
you: One’s memories do not constitute virgin neural territory.
***
No matter where he looks a revolutionist sees the
revolution.
***
Two guys were just talking and horsing around and one of
them said, “Hey, I’ve got one for you: What do you call a
machine that can regulate itself?” And the other one replied,
“You mean besides the obvious answer?” “Oh, you’ve heard it
already.”
***
One god says that what ticks him off about his own creative
activities is that it’s not possible for him to “sell out.”
***
Okay, let’s try another one; what is wrong with this
maxium?: “Don’t wait for someone else to solve your problems” —
?
***
A certain elder told his younger, “One purpose of man’s
literature is to make him believe that he may be a bigger-deal
than he actually is.”
…..then Kyroot offered up the second verse: Absent the
ability to speak, elephants can never be cognizant of any
pachydermian comparisons.
…..”Okay,” agreed K., “the second verse:” A primary
world with no secondary counterpart only half exists: A mind
living on left-overs, likewise.
***
While ordinary minds believe enlightenment will come through
ritual, tradition & repetition, a revolutionist would think to
himself, “I should be so lucky.”
***
As he sat by the track, thought one young lad: “Who but a
revolutionist can write poetry who has not been burnt by love, or
snubbed by the gods.”
***
Then, playing doctor again, Kyroot wrote out this
prescription: With out hormones there is no happiness.
***
…and Kyroot remarked: To forever think of yourself as
divided into different parts of “this and that” is to be stuck
with a map defaced with permanent fold-marks.
***
Then Kyroot produced, another Page From That Missing History
Book Of Oblique Mental Movement: Regarding his personal,ù very-
favorite-thing-in-the-world, this one guy — if pushed — would
admit he “liked it.”
***
Thought with out local form is true art.
***
Hey! — you’ll never guess who we just got a call from?! —
Captain Obvious!; he says that even if he doesn’t get here
tonight in person he has a message so important he wants me to go
ahead and pass it on to you now (I wrote it down right here, and
here’s what he said): “There is a general tendency on some
people’s part to take some things in life too seriously.”ù (He
says he’ll stop by later if possible.)
***
Everything is wondrous, first time thought — after that,
pablum.
***
A correspondent writes: “After studying on much of this
I’ve come to my own conclusion that the trick would be to, ‘think
like a whale, and breathe like an oyster’.” …(International
Trade item: There is a kind of corpus collosumù between man’s
primary and secondary spheres that no one much wants to think
about.)
***
The decree went out: “The king does now officially forbid
anyone to laugh while they’re alone, by themselves, in private.”
***
Only revolutionist thinking is viable without an audience.
…(Second stanza: Only a rebel is continuity unto himself.)
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The cannibalization of one’s self is the education of the
ordinary. …(“Tis a far better thing I do,” he said, “than I
have ever done before…since everything I’ve ever done before
I’d done already.” …[Least we frighten the ordinary even more,
there will be no elaboration of the last comment.])
***
“Remember,” advised Nurse Kyroot, “hormones don’t have moodsù
— hormones have hormones!”
***
And another communique to the Advice Doctor: “Dear Doctor:
Is the history of man (as recorded by man) a history of his
primary-world activities, or his secondary ones? If it is the
former (as I suspect), then when will the accounting of the
latter begin?” Dear Sir: Does the fact that you can think (at
least enough to write this letter) — give you any hint?!
***
Musically speaking (as regarded his own intellectual tunes),
this one man “only had eyes for him.”
***
Then Kyroot retold this piece of the great legend for the
first time: After the gods had created man they looked on him
and said, “It is good — the best work we have ever done.” — and
still they were not satisfied.
***
One man’s personal motto was, “Everything’s difficult, but
nothing impossible.” …(He later admitted that it wasn’t so
much actually his own motto, but was one he’d bought from a guy
at a truck stop.)
***
In his special need for fresh nutrition, the revolutionist
has little interest in info any older than was cooked this
morning. (He also developes a taste for little yummies that he
can whip up on the spot himself.)
***
Words in one man’s mind: “Since — when in the hands of
routine thought all tomorrows seem frail (or potentially so) —
what might be the one thing I mentally give up?!”
***
The letter began: “Dear Sir: When I died last December I
don’t feel I explained my position fully…”
***
…and Kyroot told how “Neural Leap Frog & Normal Progress
Works:” Those who say they’re smarter than others, make others
then be smarter than them.
***
The only insult that should be possible to inflict on a
revolutionist would be for him to discover him taking himself
seriously.
***
Suddenly! — right in the midst of traffic, one guy
concluded: “Being yourself is the height of un-originality!”
…(“Dear Advice Doctor: It seems to me that to be a real
artist you might have to be crazy.” Dear Sir: That’s what they
say in the city. “Dear Doctor: Should I perhaps alter my
definition of what an artist might be?!”
***
With his early morning cocoa one guy came to this
conclusion, “Any idea that doesn’t seem to have the potential of
kicking you in the wa-zoo-liesù and making you smile about it
(metaphorically speaking), isn’t worth fooling with.” …(Sip,
sip — case closed.)
***
…then Kyroot offered a combo “Logicals Update,”
(specifically, Theo, and Psycho): The urge to repent from
progress was sent.
***
The seditious side of one man’s mind finally realized, “In
order for some to survive — none can survive.” …(Thus, in
part, the difficulty of directly educating a revolutionist.)
***
When ever this one man would get even the least bit peeved
at what some one else did or said, he’d always try to remember
and say to himself, “Jeeze! — what’s wrong with me still?!!”
***
While waiting for his airport, this one man gazed out and
thought, “Once you realize that life is smarter than everybody,
and that it doesn’t know it, and that it doesn’t matter, then you
can kinda relax.”
***
The Advice Doctor received a letter from a god who complains
of receiving treatment normally reserved for victims and humans.
***
Intellectually, there are some things that cannot be; and a
revolutionist doesn’t know what they are.
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If you put a title to it, you’re no artist.
***
The primary keeps on the move so as to stay ahead of the
predators native to its own blood stream; the secondary does so
to evade the grasp of furies of its own making.
***
And a viewer writes: “Say I’ve been listening to all this
crap you talk about, and what I want to know is, if there’s
nothing wrong with life then why the hell does this revolution
thing exist?”
***
The revolutionist mind is one that can think something for
the first time over & over again.
***
A thinker has but one duty — to think even more.
***
Sometimes this one guy would hold his arms out straight,
away from his sides like he was flying…(especially when he was
flying.)
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