Jan Cox Talk 1067

Choosing Sides in Anything Is Always Captivating

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#1067 Dec 25, 1992 – 1:00 
Note by TK

Kyroot to :21. The attempt of self-improvement is a right foot attempting to change the order of toes on a left foot. To choose sides is to be captive.

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Copyright 1992 J. M. Cox                [1067] 92147

…and Kyroot said:                                   

     In the beginning — was everything that came right before

you.

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     Even those who like to say that their own head is “screwed

on right” fail to realize that someone screwed it on for them.

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     In the beginning — was the start of everything that came

after you.

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     If someone calls it prison, then it’s prison to someone.

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     An ordinary mind is like a dance team that shares a leg.

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     Ordinary men must take themselves seriously, or otherwise

they would find nothing about life profitable.

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     If someone else thought it, it’s prison.

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     Ordinary minds must defend themselves — after all,

there’s so little to protect.

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     Animals, and other single-minded creatures, aren’t aware of

their limitations, and thus never ponder “self-improvement.”

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     For efficiency — many prisons use fear and uncertainty as

guards.

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     All thoughts have two purposes.

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     Just because most of the passengers say that the ship is

sinking is no proof that it is — …even if it is.

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     When your own mind is the cell walls, all talk of escape is

ludicrous.

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     Institutions are the secret charade whereby men can be

mugged without them taking it so –personally.

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     Everyone’s born with two minds — and no one ambidextrous.

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     Only the serious seriously talk about freedom — the alert,

independence and nonalignment.

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    Common complaints are for common men, and help keep them

common.

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     And Kyroot defined:  self-improvement:  The attempt by a

right foot to reverse the order of toes on a left.

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     No matter how you cut it — slop is slop.  

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     “Dense” needs no synonym.

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     To be alive is to partially disapprove of yourself — to be

captive is to take it personally.

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     A man with a common memory remembers too much.

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     And Kyroot-the-obvious noted:  If you’re going to be dumb —

it’s better to never even suspect.

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     No captivity is as bad as being chained to yourself.

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     Life here is staged on two playing fields — we must all

compete on one of them, but only the scrub team is convinced

regarding the second.

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     A man’s “independence of mind” can be gauged by just how big

a mouth sore seems to him.

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     Weapons are to institutions as words are to institutions —

just pushier.

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     It requires limited thinking to take human existence

properly seriously.

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     Things locked up long enough become rotten.

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     A happy dog is just a happy dog — while a healthy beach is

pushed and pulled all day long.

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     Knowing you’re going to die is a common experience;

realizing you may die as dumb as you were born, however, causes a

few to scratch their chin and curl their lip.

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     After years of confinement, some prisoners find the sight of

near-naked thought the height of eroticism.

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     Having two partisan minds is a serious affair indeed.

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     Genes frighten anyone with any sense — that’s why they

don’t like to talk about them.

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     Freedom, a destination — escape, an activity; thus the

alert are concerned with the latter.

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     Dense activities must have two teams — they never want for

players.

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     One form of captivity is to have fun at someone else’s

expense.

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     There are three recognizable levels of human seriousness: 

ordinary seriousness, super seriousness, and, men-on-a-mission.

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     In common conflicts, to be neutral is to be above them.

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     Prisons have names to increase their captiousness.

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     The mind is a ladder — but high places continue to frighten

most.

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     And Kyroot noted:  Human institutions: Places for prisoners

to gather to discuss — DISCUSS — escape.

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     Serious men require silly instructions — which of course

seem quite serious.

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     The neurally independent have no care where prison walls

once stood.

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     It requires two minds to think — but only two to go awry.

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     Captives like to hang out together — both inside, and

outside the prison.

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     Seriousness requires an audience — and if it doesn’t have

one — it’ll use you.

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     Prisoners tend to keep their eyes pressed up to the little

window in the cell door.

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     On known mental shores are always two figures waving, “Over

here! — over here!”

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     Those downstairs can’t escape — and most upstairs are

satisfied to just talk about it.

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     No man is smarter than his headache.

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     Names, captivity — thought, independence.

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     A man’s parents aren’t his parents — but a pair of midwives

for our real one.

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     Taking-sides:  Mortar for prison walls.

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     Seriousness is no problem unless you take it …(you-know-

how).

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     Man’s institutions are to provide flawed escape plans.

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     Everyone is also the reflection of themself — and if you’re

not your completed version, it’s perforce, distorted.

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     A man who will not favor one leg cannot be properly chained.

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     A struggle for independence that keeps changing helps

promote its own independence.

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     A hostile man is a serious man; a hostile man is a stupid

man; a hostile man is an ordinary, frightened prisoner and must

thus be defensive.

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     A man with two minds is captive twice.

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     A serious man with two minds is captured twice — and then

some.

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     For independence — a mind must be lean.

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     In prison, captives take the noises in their cells to be

themselves.

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     Anything about which is said, “There is no way out,” becomes

a place of confinement.

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     Being tied to a rotten mind,

     Can result in a rotten time.

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     Captivity, a destination — seriousness, the journey.

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     An independent mind has no “higher ups.”

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     True escape never requires injury to anyone else.

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     Chaining two prisoners together makes it harder for either

one to escape — especially so internally — neurally.

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     Cancer can kill an organ, and limited thinking, the second

joy of living.

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     The overall past is important to the prison — the

immediate, to individual prisoners.

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     Having two minds, it is possible for man to look at himself

in a mirror — or — head-on.

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     Making all plans of escape sound extremely complex keeps

most prisoners passive and harmless.

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     Having a “philosophy of life” is — neurally speaking — a

poor man’s approach.

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     Taking ideas “personally” is the height of several things —

among them:  seriousness, stupidity, and captivity.

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     At the mental level everyone is their own jailer — and

routine efforts at “self-improvement,” the preferred form of

attempted bribery.

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     Having little bitty brains will not insure little bitty

pains.

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     All prisoners have a number written on their back;  its

degree of permanency is based on the amount of seriousness

involved.

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     Discussing escape helps fluff up the pillows of captivity.

                               ***

     The Uncodified Code of Many:  If you can’t be independent,

be happy; and if you can’t be happy, be serious; and if you can’t

be serious, be frightened and disturbed.

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     Life’s mental prisons are serious to those who don’t know

about their construction materials.

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     Neural captivity is being chained with the shortest leash

possible.

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     One of hormones’ jobs is to age and quit dreaming of escape.

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     No prisoner is dead until he’s been executed.

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     For those who put their earlier confinement to good use —

the sight of a point-blank wall can be extremely stimulating.

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     Captivity, stagnant — only effort, vital.

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     Only the dumb will write odes to being in prison.

                               ***

     Neurons can think — hormones can act; hormones can kill,

and thinking just makes you wish you were dead.

                               ***

     You have your choice of “best friend” in life — your

hormones, or your brains.

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     Most prisoners are too dumb to admit it — thus their love

of discussing escape.

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     The move toward possible human independence is via

unrelenting neural activity.

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     Philosophies, prisons — independent thought, keys.

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     In the animal world there is no talk of freedom — in the

human there is — just as a joke.

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     Being neurally independent doesn’t seem like all that much

to the independent.

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     To good, reputable prisoners the idea of escape seems

somehow… too — silly.

                               ***

     Someone called while you were out — someone called while

one of you were out — someone called while both of you were out. 

Someone called while you were out.

                               ***

     Inside, doom; inside, safety — outside …outside …

outside …   

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     The secret to being human is to be two — the secret of

escape is to not.

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     Life is of one mind.

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     For a few — one mind is better than two.

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     Prisoners sing the blues — the independent whistle at

hearses.

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     Being on a trip with yourself is the best possible journey.