“The most thoroughly and relentlessly damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignored, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all 'Damned Things' is the individual human being.
The social engineers, statisticians, psychologists, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this 'Damned Thing' into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the 'Damned Thing' will not fit into the slot assigned it.
The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it.
The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it.
The psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it.
Still, the 'Damned Thing' will not fit into their slots.”
Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities.
We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is a metaphor.
When we meet somebody whose separate tunnel-reality is obviously far different from ours, we are a bit frightened and always disoriented.
We tend to think they are mad, or that they are crooks trying to con us in some way, or that they are hoaxers playing a joke.
Yet it is neurologically obvious that no two brains have the same genetically-programmed hard wiring, the same imprints, the same conditioning, the same learning experiences.
We are all living in separate realities.
That is why communication fails so often, and misunderstandings and resentments are so common.
I say "meow" and you say "Bow-wow," and each of us is convinced the other is a bit dumb
Only the madman is absolutely sure.
The future is up for grabs.
It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.
Work hard to achieve what you need to but remember NEVER become a conformist or sell your soul in return.
Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently.
Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point.
Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.
Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.
Reality is what you can get away with.
As Oscar Wilde truly said, "Disobedience was man’s Original Virtue.”
Every fact of science was once damned.
Every invention was considered impossible.
Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy.
Every artistic innovation was denounced as fraud and folly.
The entire web of culture and ‘progress,’ everything on earth that is man-made and not given to us by nature, is the concrete manifestation of some man’s refusal to bow to Authority.
We would own no more, know no more, and be no more than the first apelike hominids if it were not for the rebellious, the recalcitrant, and the intransigent.
The normal is that which nobody quite is.
If you listen to seemingly dull people very closely, you'll see that they're all mad in different and interesting ways, and are merely struggling to hide it.
"Is", "is." "is"—the idiocy of the word haunts me.
If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense.
I don't know what anything "is";
I only know how it seems to me at this moment." - Robert Anton Wilson
peace love and light
ps/smoh
