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.
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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.
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Neurons can think — hormones can act; hormones can kill,
and thinking just makes you wish you were dead.
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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.
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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.
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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.