(Conspiracy Nation, 06/21/05)
-- The various bodies rush to and fro. (See "Various Bodies In Motion,"
http://www.shout.net/~bigred/VarBod.html)
It can be surmised that these rushing bodies are in rapid motion
because they have some purpose. In fact, in most cases, the purpose of
the frenzied movements is owned by another. This Xeno owns the purpose and therefore
has a lien on the various bodies. It is said that such bodies
("persons") are alienated (a lien ate Ed).
The bodies rushing to and fro generally operate according to
another's purpose. The employer, for example, has various purposes due
to which demands are placed upon the liened body. A pile of purposes is
placed upon the employee's shoulders, causing the employee to scurry
about. Other bodies, perceiving the particular liened body hurrying
hither and yon, nod and say, "There goes someone with a purpose!" (But whose purpose?)
If you are not rushing around like a chicken with its head chopped
off, then ipso facto, you
must lack a purpose. Or that will be the perception.
At times, there are vague perceptions, like, "What is my purpose?"
This is an occasional dim awareness that whatever purpose you may once
have had has long since been liened by another.
The Russian philosopher Peter Ouspensky sneered at the multitude of
rushing bodies pretending to own their own purpose. In Tertium Organum he probed
the limitations of positivist science.
("Positivism" confines itself to the data of experience, i.e., "Can
it be measured?" Positivists reject speculation regarding the nature of
reality that radically goes beyond self-defined "evidence" boiling down
to, Can it be measured? "Positivism is thus worldly, secular,
antitheological, and antimetaphysical." -- Encyclopedia Britannica
reference, in part.)
Ouspensky argued that "in relation to nature a positivist scientist
is almost in the same position as a savage in a library filled with
valuable rare books. For a savage a book is a thing of a certain size and weight.
However long he may puzzle over the purpose of this strange thing, he
will never understand it by its appearance, and the content of the book will remain
for him the unfathomable noumenon.
And the contents of nature are just as unfathomable for a positivist
scientist."
Supposedly the various liened bodies have certain "free times." Lest
these bodies experience existential angst while the purposeful owner is
away, a pre-packaged purpose is insinuated constantly, cunningly, and
aggressively: You were born to shop.
Ouspensky ridicules this absurdity of "economic man" as "a
two-dimensional plane-being which moves in two directions -- those of
production and of consumption."
Others having liens upon your purpose and subtly propelling your
body hither and yon at an ever-increasing pace are...
("Then what is your purpose?"
asked W. Somerset Maugham of Laurence "Larry" Darrell. He replied,
"That's just it. I don't quite know it yet." "Then what do you want to
do?" Maugham insisted. "Loaf," he said. -- The Razor's Edge)
Sometimes there are so-called "existential crises," where various
occupants of liened bodies feel "alienated." They think, "What is the
meaning of it all?" It is called a "crisis," but it is instead a dim
groping toward liberation. What is occuring is a vague struggle to
reclaim the liened body and drive it henceforth according to
self-purpose.
This Fourth of July, Americans will wave flags and repeat that they
are "free." In the cause of Liberty, Conspiracy
Nation suggests a counter-purpose to wield against the "purpose"
of Ouspensky's "two-dimensional plane-being which moves in two
directions -- those of production and of consumption." The
counter-purpose you can claim for your Self, to assist in driving out
the purposes of your various owners, is that which drove Isaac Newton.
He "regarded the universe as a cryptogram set by the Almighty." There
are mysteries to be solved, contrary to the stultifying proclamations
of
cut-and-dried "intellectuals." To Newton, "Life was a riddle to be
understood, a code to be cracked, as a duty to the divine." (White,
Michael. Isaac Newton: The
Last Sorcerer)
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