About Time! yell Media
Yes, given that the media can only purvey what it
somehow
imagines people want to see and hear, the
people have to allow themselves to be gaplessly
convinced that it
is in fact what they
want to see and
hear, even though 99% of it is quite obviously trash,
lies and waste of materials. (Is that a portrait of 'the
Consumer'?) Anyway, they apparently have all left it
up to
Fud, the Newspaper from Nowhere, to 'tell it
like it is,' -
if that's at all possible.
Few readers can
have any idea of just what an enormous and difficult
task this is. In fact, we venture our opinion that it's
most probably a superhuman task.
Take
the ghastly record of history as your guide: the
centuries, the millenia of compacted ignorance that
have been necessary to produce the incredibly high
standard of human being---ourself, no less---that we
have strutting about all over the planet today.
Now
what does this latest and greatest development of the
dinosaur know or care about anything that is not
straightforward self-indulgence? And quite right, for
what is life except self-indulgence? If you're lucky!
Isn't that what it's all about, once you've got the
problem of survival sorted? Of course it is.
So What's for Sale?
Nothing at all. No
profit will go to the producers of
Fud because they simply don't
deserve any for writing stuff like
this. But almost anyone with the
gift of literacy in the present
language should be able to read
and enjoy this wee Newspaper
because
it says so much that all
the others don't. Actually, Fud
is an information exchange that
goes far beyond the smug propaganda and inanities of State
radio and TV. The fact
is that mankind urgently needs to
undergo radical change in its
entire pattern. The big question
is how can this come about?
The Great Meteorite Hope is no
good,because it would be too
quick for anyone to appreciate
the results satisfactorily, even
though it might solve the
problem definitively.
First of all, the caveats: yes, humanity is completely set in its pattern; the climate is going berserk; war, always a favourite, is in the offing; houses cost more than you can earn in a lifetime; and yes, the cultural level is plummeting, and yes too, individuality is being squeezed as the head-count soars.
However, that said, it is difficult to find anything seriously wrong in one’s actual experience. If you compare, then something can always be found; non-comparatively, it’s not a bad deal. Let’s also admit that there is always the freedom to look into the whole matter, assuming one is strong enough to stand free of the social pulls.
The point is yourself — but not thinking or feeling; what each thinks or feels is simply biological and social conditioning. Check? ‘Myself’ - that same old, habitually difficult feeling. Not resisting (relaxation) and not going dull could be interesting. ‘Relax and explore’— a nice motto for your coat of arms.
‘Study’ in this context refers to ‘study of consciousness and behaviour.’ If you haven’t come across this term before, it’s hardly surprising since there is, as far as is known, only the one in all the world, and it isn’t very keen on publicity. Note on the terms: ‘consciousness’ means the ability to know, be aware of: ‘behaviour’ refers to what is happening in the environment around you, as well as what and who you impact on.
These are the essential elements. Once you get interested, you begin to see that the interpretation we have been handed as to what life is or means, is pretty limited and unsatisfying. All human knowledge goes just so far and then runs out, like water in the sands. Actually, what knowledge peters out into is its opposite - not knowing. Socially, not to know makes you a dumbcluck, a dodo, dimwit, dunce, but not-knowing is one’s very nature, and it in no way interferes with knowing. OK?
Centre? A potentially great idea. A place where those able to cast off the spell of vanity can get together and look into the meaning of it all, without teachers or experts. It does require keenness and maturity, but in return for giving up game playing you get access to what you really want - complete dissolution of all that is false. What is left? The genuine, of course!
Does perfection imply being saintly, wanting little or even nothing? A kind of asexual existence as far from people as possible? A deity to apologise to continually for not being perfect? What is perfection?
The word means ‘thoroughly, completely done, complete,’ which definition applies exactly to our own world, what each perceives, including whatever is going on. Have you noticed that everything is ‘there’ already, the whole of appearance, as you recognise it and begin your action sequence - ‘here’s me going to the kitchen’ or whatever. So, we ‘come to’ with the stage-set already in place, and how we proceed is up to sensitivity, initiative, openness to hints, requirements of the moment etc. Seen in this way, ‘appropriate responding’ would perhaps be close to the meaning sought. Being accurate, the character, the player of the part, could be said to be completely responsible. Is it possible to do better than this?
