Jan Cox Talk 1161

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There is a kind of elegance to the obvious             …once you face up to it.

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The Wrapping and Ribbons: Those who don’t know what they’re talking about, grope for words.
The Gift Inside: It seems like everybody’s groping for words.

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A History & Cry OF The, “Battle Cry”:

“I’m alive!”, he shouted, “Therefore I am!”; “‘Am’ WHAT?” someone asked;

“That too!” he replied.

A mind that can stop — can get off, and minds don’t want to get off.

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Civilization: A business with no product.

Why do you think that governments are its highest achievement!?

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“L” For, “Lo” — “L” For, “Lies” — “L” For, “Lo And Behold”:

Whenever he knew for sure that he wasn’t going home,

This one man would always ring ’em up and say: “I’m on the way home.”

…(Blessed “A” For, “Assurance” — [And Other Things].)

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A man in the city said to a friend:

“I’ve decided I want to be a, ‘public commentator’ — what’ll it take?”

And his bud replied: “You just gotta make things sound worse than they are.” And the man asked: “How’s that possible?”

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Cripples need cliches,

The uncertain — fashionable speech.

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One man told his mind: “Wake up and smell the coffee.”,

And it replied: “I don’t like coffee!”

And the man thought: “OR much of anything ELSE, as far as I can tell.”

A viewer says: “I have trouble distinguishing between my brain, and my mind.” And his mind said: “I don’t!”

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To the come-hither calls of just past events, one man brushed them away and said: “If I was interested in nostalgia I’d go for the real thing — I’d DIE!”

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Hormones have no honor.

Upon hearing this, a man looked around and said: “That alone, explains a lot.”

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Another Excellent Example Of How Civilization Breeds, Builds & Grows:

There are people who are not so much “famous” themself as they are “kind-of famous” for being the person who cuts the hair OF someone truly famous, or fixes their toilets.

** More and more from less and less
Less & less from more and more,
And all combinations thereof.**

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One man writes other people’s names on slips of paper, then drops them on the street.

..(He says it’s none of your damn business, why he does it.)

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To think independently requires that you relentlessly — keep up the pressure! -And, old dear — it is you who must PROVIDE the pressure.

One man inquired of local life:

“Could I maybe, like just — have a choice? —

Like maybe I could either just: ‘Accept justice.’ -Or maybe: Swallow a live rat or something?’

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Proposition: Don’t talk about those not present. Translation: Don’t talk about people’s minds.

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One city observer notes:

“One advantage I guess of modern times is that now a man can become an electronic hermit.”

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Habits — even, “bad” ones, by collective standards -Aren’t meant to be “abruptly broken,”

But rather — “strung-g-g out” —

Even in the processes of apparently stopping them.

                 (Not unlike – [I might add] — civilization itself.)

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Hormones have no honor.

Upon hearing this, the man looked around — particularly at his own personal life, and said: “In this area that explains MORE than, ‘a lot’!”

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A certain publisher,

Who was this year’s featured speaker at the Ecologists’ Annual Award Dinner, presented as his speech, this one sentence.

“Good evening, ladies and gentlemen: Doom-sayers are the only creatures lower on the evolutionary ladder than writers, and party-goers.”

By a show of hands, it’s already been decided not to invite him back next year.

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As local conditions passed back through that certain city, on its way home,

It again took a quick reading on the general health of the people by shouting out to them: “Applaud — if you love to whine!”

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As regards the, “Music of Speech,” a viewer writes:

“I may BE no Sonny Rollins, but I’m dumber than YOU are!”

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The herd doesn’t mind individual cows questioning, or complaining about

The answers the herd provides — just as long as they keep turning to the herd

for answers.

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…(Psst! — I just gotta ask: You DO KNOW that the herd is actually a “thing’; don’t you!?

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Boom, Boom, Gloom:

The serious are destined to be critics!

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Boom, Boom, Follow-up:

A critic is a happy critic.  Got cha!

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Fact: A man with a “strong opinion” has a knife at somebody’s throat. Conclusion: Better his — than yours.

Even, “intellectually” — suicide should be a, “one-man sport”.

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Tips For Bedazzling Boudoir Maneuvers:

Contraire to conventional wisdom-&-truisms —

A real thinker will ONLY lie in an intellectual bed that he has made.

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Combination Feature for Gamblers & Warlords: Cut your past and you’ve “cut your losses.”

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One, non-standard, civil financial ponderer

In his latest, non-printed brochure describes, “Success in City Enterprises” as having the “turd monopoly for the entire ocean floor”.

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Music is a “mystery” only to the tone deaf.

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A viewer contacts us to say:

“I AM pondering & thinking-about what you might be a’meanin’ by that twice-time used term — ‘The Heedless Horseman’.
Yes — just a’ponderin’ — and a’thinkin’.”

He prods me to now wonder

Who will be first to reflect on the implications of — “Taking merry go rounds to dazzling new heights! -If not into — totally new dimensions”!?

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…And all of this hullabaloo

Seemed to cause one man to say to his sister:

“What need has a man with a burglar alarm for White-Out!?”

M.C.T.N.– (Might Care To Note), that:

Everything can be “corrected,” save death.

Should this make you re-think the notion that death is somehow a “mistake”?!?

…In this regard, the sister says, she ain’t talking!

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As the child headed off for the first time to the city the father told him this: “Over there, it doesn’t matter much,

What you try to do,

But if you don’t try anything,

It matters then to you.”

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Convo:

“Hey — why talk about the inevitable?”

“You mean other than because you’re ordinary?” “Right-t-t!”

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“Range News”– A’Movin’ This Way:

One kid told a calf buddy:

“The more complex things get around here, the more perverse it seems to the old folks.”

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Habit is to the middle class as drugs are to bohemians.

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In Re the Matter Of “Local Fate”:

Trying to help a man who IS going to drown can only make him go down faster.

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Convo –(as in — “Convo-sation”) — Revisited:

“Hey — why talk about the inevitable?”

“To keep from noticing how obvious it is?”

“Right-t-t, dude!”

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Dance is a “mystery” only to those with no rhythm.

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Supportive Hint Number Six for The Civilized, Yet, “Still-Troubled”:

If you don’t act as though your individual life is somehow more important than you feel it to truly be,

There’s a distinct likelihood that it will not even be of what little significance it actually is.

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“Okay”, says a viewer,

“I tried thinking about things I’d never thought about before — and I didn’t like it! Plus      —           I couldn’t DO it!”

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One attraction of politics is that it is the only field a fool can enter, and immediately be taken seriously.

…and also: When a man gets power, he no longer worries as much about his intelligence.

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The simple are easily challenged.

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Definitions Desk time:

Rituals: Habits, “fancy-named”.

The question then becomes: What does a sheep in wolf’s clothes eat when only real food is available?

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An old artist is no longer an artist.

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In one sense,

A thinker is the only, truly, “self-employed”

In that he is the only one who will pay him to think,

And the only one from whom he will accept payment TO think.

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Our Hymn For The Day

The crude and everyone else,
Lets- hormones get ’em down;

But none but the dumb, otherwise.

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A Follow-Up To Another Recent Story:

Many who live in the city, live in mines —               that is: Underground.

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One inanimate object said to another one: “Man! — can you believe the nerve of people!?”

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After complaining & whining,

If someone tells you: “Welcome to the club.”

Be aware that you’ve been greeted by the world’s LARGEST social organization.

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During a particularly friendly and frisky interlude,

Local physical conditions said to the mortal involved:

“Did you ever really consider how deeply intellectual awareness works on man in spite of the fact that it hardly actually exists!? —

Such as in the fact that without a consciousness of death there IS no death!?”

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Internal Fairy Tale Miscellanea for Inner City Dwellers:

An “Eater’s Ending”: “And they lived metabularly ever after.”

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Every real thinker is an artist of some kind.

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How Generations, Come-And-Go, And Some Times Faster Than Others:

The more civilized the herd, the less regard calves have for their genetic elders.

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One man had this hand-written note he took with and would show whenever he visited a branch bank of the Federal Reserve System, or the Philosophy Department of any major university, and it said: “Show me your muffins.”

One of them was less amused than the other.

Institutions’ sense-of-humor falls somewhere on an intensity scale between a dentist’s and a tax auditor’s —

A lack of the, “funnies” is partly what institutions are about, however.

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Now for our feature of: “News That EVERYONE Likes to Hear About”;

Most really great thinkers are unappreciated, less than extraordinarily well-off financially, not particularly well-known, and not especially good-looking, or sexy.

…(See! — I told you you’d like it!)

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A certain city man,

(Passing himself off as a “father”),

Said to this one kid:

“There are two ways to handle people who are critical of you:

One is to — compliment them on their clothes;

The other is to cut them. It’s your call -It’s your choice.

That’s how things ARE – ‘in town’.”

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Diagnosis: All opinions are a form of attempted — “self-hypnosis”. Patient’s Question: “Did you say, ‘attempted’?”

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Our Head Writer here at the News Show asks us to read this statement to try and make a certain matter, “clear”, (or at least, clear-ER):

“Although we present many reports and stories telling how there IS no, “Great Conspiracy” —        there of course — IS. Thank you.”

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Song From The City:

I may be cripple, I may be lame;

In my pocket,

In my brain.

So! — I’m stupid,

And I ain’t rich;

I don’t care — long as I can bitch!

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Finality, Revisited:

Remember this — No trip to the city is ever complete…   

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At times as he’d watch his mind begin to wander off, this one man would ask himself: “Why go out to fun if you’re already pissed? ii

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Battle News — From “Certain” Views:

Neurons grant no amnesty, and hormones can’t.

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The, “Two Kinds Of People” Observer, observes for us the following:

“There are two kinds of people in the world:

Those who — when reading a sentence whose last word is to be emphasized -Will lower their voice,

And those who will raise theirs.”

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Under a tree,

Under the shade,

And under his breath, So sang one man:

I’m the –Idiot son of an idiot son; No need to guess my lineage.

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Fact: The muddier the thought and talk, the more efficient it is for city affairs.

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“Hey —  come on”, said a Cheshire to a parakeet,

“What’s all this talk about cats-and-birds about, any way!?”

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Meanwhile —

Sometime after the reading of one earlier news story a viewer faxes in this message: “Sirs: Regarding the item you presented that said:

‘Every real thinker is an artist of some kind.’ —

I want to ask you: Do you say that just to make me feel good?”

Dear Viewer: Did it?

“Yes, it did.”

See! — it worked!

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Art is a “mystery” only to men with no talent -Thinking — to cows in a collective.

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Complimenting hormones won’t help!

Plus

A short fact,

Is a happy fact;

Unless it applies to you!

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We are indebted to a correspondent for the following idea:

“Being civilized is about like trying to become a hero on purpose — it hardly ever works.”

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One thinker had a rather simple and direct attitude towards all habits: “Go to hell!”

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Used technology is ugly technology.

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The central intellectual by-product of everyday life, (by way of man), is — excuses.

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One guy’s latest attitude:

“Hey! — if I knew what I was talking about I probably wouldn’t be agreeing with you.”

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On this one world it was proposed that only the innocent be allowed to serve on juries, thus did all juries come to be composed of the living.

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Any time he had to seek medical treatment

This one man always used a fictitious name — so, (he said), That if he died, the authorities couldn’t notify anyone.

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One young Prince asked his old man, (aka, The King): “Say, Pops —

Which is worse —

To ask someone to, ‘pay you for counseling’, or to Stick your dick in their pocket?”

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Alert! Number One Hundred & Four, (or so):

There is no such creature as, “useful advice” passed between people -…The exception being, (perhaps), among real thinkers —

…But then it’s no longer called, “advice” — now is it!?

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Neurons see hormones dying and think: “My god! — who can I turn to now!?”

                 (This is the overall basis for much of man’s institutional life — You can identify the specifics.)

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It appears that we have time now for one more definition of our old bud: The Neural City: Where the imaginary pursues the illusory.

Well, say, Jerrel, that reminds me of a related one:

Civilization: The magical transformation of:
Verbs into nouns,

Services into goods,

Actions into objects — and

The intangible made to seem totally otherwise.

Hey — well done, Pat!     —             relevant indeed! —

                 And I guess we have time to take just one more shot at the first one again:

The Neural City of Man: The place where everybody’s — SOME kinda guy.

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Every generation, the collective devours itself;

In contrast — an individual thinker consumes his own mind.

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The Rhyme and Warning of The Ancient Thinker:

Stick out your teeth,

Suck in your gums;

I’ve got a thought, and — H-e-r-e i-t c-o-m-e-s!

“So!”, said the raven to the albatross, “You ain’t talkin’ either!?”

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Those unpredictable intellectual activities, unique to each individual thinker are more a matter of relentlessness than discipline.

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The unsettling news is that: Without originality — nothing is possible, And the good news is that — WITH it — everything is.

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Don’t drive on no ugly bridge.

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Tonight’s the night for the annual re-reading of what is perhaps our most popular story:

Your genetics is my environment — and mine, yours.

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Only the ordinary believe that they can change —

A thinker doesn’t deal in beliefs.

Face It: A real thinker ain’t much of ANY, “kinda-of-a-guy”!

Son Of “Face It”:

* Don’t drive on no UGLY bridge! *