Jan Cox Talk 1069

Life Tests Man Daily to See if He Is Submissive Enough for the Tests

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#1069 Dec 30, 1992 – 1:00 
Notes by TK

Kyroot to :20. Life tests man daily to see if he is still submissive enough to tolerate such testing. The original “Promised Land” for everybody is civilization. The first civilized joy was speech. There is another Promised Land for the Neural Revolutionist.

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     Man lives in two overlapping worlds:  The Silently Required, 

and The Verbal Potential.  …(often thought of as:  The 

Savage, and The Civilized.)

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     Up-front explanation:  To talk is to be “civilized.”

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     Life keeps a close grip on man’s collective thinking not for 

reasons nefarious, but for the sake of orderly growth.

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     Prisoners with simple minds often have quite complex escape 

proposals.

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     Operational definition:  Prison:  Exaggerated term for, 

“being alive.”

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     Institutions and civilization itself are man’s intellect and 

words made concrete.

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     “Self-pity” is always helpful to those with a partial or 

crippled self.

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     Life keeps a pretty close reign on those it likes; life 

likes most everybody…(least in that kinda way.)

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     Prisoners always think provincially.

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     Before he’d get out of bed every morning this one man would 

make his speech take all of its clothes off.

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     The civilized:  Happy captives in a brand-new land.

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to privately refer to his neural processes as:  “Take It or Leave 

It.”

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     The “Important Questions” life puts before man are not there 

to be answered, but to intimidate.

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     An independent mind is a simple mind; an independent mind is 

a cold-blooded mind; an independent mind is a point-blank, right-

in-your-own-face mind.  *What else, besides nothing, do some want.*

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     Talking about yourself is one cause of hemophilia.

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     One secret prison guideline:  Keep the inmates worried about 

morality — it’ll keep their minds off thinking.

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     To believe oneself civilized, sophisticated, and 

intellectually free is to be dead on one’s feet.

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     Two modifiers are at least one too many.

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     Cows must be led — thinking-man too — (but he doesn’t want 

to think about it).

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     Ask not for whom this or that may toll, but rather ponder:  

Who but man would do what man does?

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     An ordinary man who thinks he is “intellectually free” makes 

the word dense sound like a compliment.

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     Institutions:  The headwaters from which all of man’s 

collective slop flows.

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     Individuality:  A dream of prisoners who have calendars.

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     It is not so much acts that bother the neurally civilized 

and captive as it is facts.

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     Having a real mind of your own is one of the secret 

pleasures of existence.

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     Life allowed human confinees to invent religion, 

metaphysics, and other matters mystical, so as to distract them 

from simply walking out through the cell door.

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     Only the dense and civilized will happily participate in 

needless combat.

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     Specific escape plans help keep the ordinary imprisoned.

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     To be civilized is to find words more important than deeds.

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     A man who “knows the truth,” as opposed to his neighbor’s 

folly, doesn’t have to wait until no one’s looking to shoot 

himself in the foot.

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     For the ordinary, the benefit of yammering about the 

improbable is in the time it saves.

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     The prisoners downstairs are pleased with their captivity, 

those upstairs, not; just the way life planned it.

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     In the civilized world — facts follow acts as wet trails the

rain.

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Of what worth are the standard messages of institutions to the independent mind when they are of doom and despair.

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     If you “have a plan,” you have a problem….if it’s somebody 

else’s plan.

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     Life permits — nay, will encourage — prisoners to rail 

against imaginary walls.

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     One man says:  “I don’t give advice unless someone asks for 

it and I don’t even then.”

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     Those satisfied with explaining themselves as being a 

product of their background are quite easily satisfied, and most 

likely to be content to stay where they are.  * The independent 

do not explain themselves — the independent can’t. *

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     Civilized men:  Fancy birds that can be held in invisible 

cages.

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     A hostile description is an anti-description.  A hostile 

description is an anti-description, just as all institutional 

information is contaminated with self-interest.  * An independent 

mind ignores all ipse dixit definitions, and names than men have 

given to themselves. *              

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     The only shame in being a prisoner is to be too dumb to know 

it.

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     On days when he wasn’t quite sure who he was this one man 

would just use his initials.

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     As long as a man believes that any particular words or ideas 

can be personally adversarial, the guards don’t have to check his 

cell.

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     As they begin to die — everyone gets the blues — thing is, 

as regards the intellectual version — you don’t have to! — All 

you have to do is refuse to.

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     Hey gang — let’s get together and go somewhere new! — Hey 

gang — now that we’re here — what’ll we do? — Hey, I know — 

let’s standardize our thinking, and set up institutions, and 

it’ll be just like it was back home.

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     A man thought:  “My feet are beginning to die and are trying 

to make my mind feel sad in the process.”

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     A man who can find fault with the ideas of others will be 

able to find all of the fault that life will eventually need for 

him to find.

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     To civilized minds — words are the flesh on the bones of 

deeds.

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     To escape a snare, a trapped animal may chew off its foot; 

an independent mind — walk away from the obvious and over-used.

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     If you don’t know what you’re doing, it’s difficult to 

maneuver.  …and a man comments:  “Most people alive find it 

difficult to maneuver.”  (And I think we’ll let it go at that.)

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     Life has neural captivity set up in such a way that 

prisoners continue to passionately engage in intramural contests 

which obviously can be of no ultimate significance beyond their 

limited confines.  * Thus are mental combatants both the leaders 

and children of the world. *

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     The act of trains running is not sufficient for civilized 

existence — man must have facts concerning this situation.

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A man marching in one column wore a cap that said: “Life is Hard — And Then You Die,” and off to the side was another man  with one which read:  “Man Says That Life Is Hard — And Then 

Life Goes on About Its Business.”

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     Life tests man daily — to see if he is still submissive 

enough to tolerate such tests.

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     Another unpublished prison directive (and droll commentary 

on how surely night continues to follow day):  “Keep ’em sad — 

keep ’em stupid.”

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     The man I mentioned earlier who had begun to call his less 

biased thinking activities by a certain “pet name” says that 

since he has gotten even better at it that he has altered it 

appropriately to:  “‘Take It or Leave It.’ — ‘I’ll Take-It For 

The Moment.'”

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     Uncivilized diners never argue over the menu, or the 

shortness of the meal, while from libraries nothing but such 

wrangling is heard.

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     The ordinary intellectual world of man is like a self-

constructed jungle gym with monkey-bars covered in Crazy Glue.

* Oh, what fun to jump-&-swing while believing you can “let go” at 

any time. *

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     Cripples remain satisfied as long as mirrors are one-legged.  

* All institutions and manifestation of collective thought are 

gimpy. *

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     In that deeds are too simplistic for civilized existence — 

words take care of that.

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All attempts to explain man, fail, and weasel-thinkers even try and use this one.  …(And now let’s all stand and cheer for the — Weasel Thinkers! — Just think what they’d know if they 

knew what they were doing.)

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     One man wore a t-shirt with his photograph on it — He said 

it made it “Easier that way.”

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     Almost any excuse is as good as cyanide.

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     Civilization is the “Promised Land” to everybody initially 

— but why stop there?! — If there was one, there must be 

another.

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     Prisoners who don’t actually want to go anywhere will often 

act the most excited when escape plans are discussed.  * Captives 

who somehow still manage to believe that they are smarter than 

their captor are too mentally torpid to present any security 

risk. *

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     The brain is a scale, and men have been told that their mind 

is a butcher with an unlimited meat counter.

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     Personal anecdotes seem to be, to captive minds, cosmic 

his’try.

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     To think beyond horizons, you must first be able to see the 

horizons.  Note:  Those in confinement have severely limited 

views.

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     There is only one thing possibly pliable in life, and most 

people have pretty well brittled-it-up by adulthood.

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     Having a philosophy can keep a man from thinking.

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     Deeds don’t traumatize the civilized — words do.

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     Independent mind:  Near example of that which can live 

without normal nourishment.

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     Only the seriously captive believe that continuing 

confessions of stupidity prove increasing intelligence.

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     Hermits, critics, and sardonic-wits are all part of a herd; 

for every collective there is an anti-collective, and both put 

together constitute the minimum for a collective.  * “Is there 

no way out?” — Not for those who ask. *

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     Duty is pertinent only to creatures who can think; and those 

who can think independently only have one duty.  * Query:  Wanna 

guess what it is — besides, “Think some more”?! *

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     Life needs no prison walls — the ordinary are held captive 

by words; an independent mind remembers that, “What goes up — 

can be walked away from.”  * Only the civilized will stay in a 

jail that may not even want them. *

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     A man can be as silly as he wants to be as long as he 

doesn’t take it seriously.

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     Anything that body can do the mind can think about — what 

else can it use?!  …(An independent thinker might have a 

response to this.)

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     It should be clear to all but the most inane of inmates that 

the prison is not actually going to provide information on how to 

escape.  * To berate an institution (such as a university, for 

wisdom not forthcoming) is a failure to recognize the true 

purpose of its enterprise. *

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Irony is second base for those who just got to second base for the first time.

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     Those who prefer one word or idea over another may be 

allowed to select their own form of execution. …(Maybe?!…)

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     A man with hormones has a friend; a man with a mind has a 

friend; a man with hormones and a mind who are friends has some 

world class companionship.

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     Ordinary thought:  The supreme example of “A Known Losing 

Battle”…(well, by now it should be known!)

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     Institutions award titles — since that’s all they have.

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     Another, “Brain Buster”:  There is no “cure” — for 

imprisonment.

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     To be of independent mind is to be twice civilized.

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     One man lived in such a way that he didn’t talk about it.

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     A partisan is never an individual.

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     In civilized circles the answers to everything are too 

simple.

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     Institutions help subtly remind man of the folly of 

civilization.

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     A man who can think doesn’t care what others think.

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     Words that don’t explain something don’t explain anything.

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     An independent mind doesn’t see through other people’s 

thoughts — just beyond them.

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     A man with his own mind enjoys himself — in fact, life even 

kinda fancies such a man.

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     Captivity, subtle — independence, in-your-face!

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     An independent mind is like a rocket that finds itself at a 

small rural air strip.

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     One man kept hearing a bird knocking at his bedroom door.

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     For the sake of some immediate clarity, one man omitted 

about half of what he wanted to say.