A WHOOPER SWAN'S DIARY: 04/25/16

THE STORY OF JOHNNY WHOOPER SWAN We go to school trusting our parents. We meet a teacher there who stands up front with a big desk, and a pointer. She or he trains us in an authoritative manner. We attach mentally to a life long need for authority in order to live lives successfully. Right so far? In my case, at the age of 25 I was ready to enter the practice of law where I hoped for success and a happy life finally. Very shortly, very shortly, I became anxious. There was a foreboding. I was made more uncomfortable with each experience. Law work is nothing like what I was told it would be. The system is corrupt. But I still cling to my expectation that career success is necessary to my happiness as a man. Each day my grasp of what the fuck success amounts to after all becomes more clouded, murkier. I hear songs on the airwaves and at concerts which describe my life as the life of a fool. What am I becoming? I want to rip off my business suit to run naked in the street with my hair on fire! But I am too afraid. In strange, weird (weird comes from a word meaning wise), fragmented steps I go about a journey of my own believing myself to be the first man to have failed in such a total way which journey works so as to break up my career, end a marriage, and start an entirely new way of relating with my two children whom I love deeply. Almost magically I meet a woman who is a career counselor who asserts a beautiful message that I am made to be joyful in my work everyday and at all levels. This understanding sets me on a completely new course. It is no longer a world of systems to me but an undivided one of unlimited beauty. It reminds me of a painting. A true masterpiece. I am drawn from within to learn the truth about my identity and nobody else can teach me that. From this point onward I will use thinking capacity for mastering mechanical processes and follow my heart, which includes my whole nature, which includes your whole nature and that of every human being for all the rest. I’ll go by the name Johnny Whooper Swan who does not explain itself to anyone. By my fruits shall I be known. Watch me soar!

Monday, April 25, 2016

Question: Is it necessary for you to surrender to some corporate machine your powerful need to be distracted by entertainment that tells you that you are a part of something large and grand that many others are denied? Do you even know what I am getting at? Are you awake enough to realize your craving to be close to a true hero, if not one? Study why you have always felt that need.

Ask, to begin, what is behind this craving that drives me before it is too late. Before time expires for the finite allotment to the purpose so dear to your heart. Before an explosion ends trendy America and you with it. Trends. I am this. I am that. See my hat?

I make this suggestion to catch anyone who hears me in a whirl of emotion so intense it cannot be denied any longer that will deliver that one to act to uncover what the corporate machine is betting you will ignore. Actually, its proponents are betting nothing is there beyond what is for sale at its happiness store. It just so happens there is something. It lurks in a closet you never look into. Find that place.

That something is so important that if you do not have it, nothing else matters, and, if you do have it, nothing else matters.

What is a fucking school? Not much. Mostly it is bureaucratic nonsense. Lost is the long ago wish to teach the students truth. Yet, you wear its colors and fly its flag as if it is your essence. It is a jail. A babysitter. An excuse to get you out of the way so your parents could make money to play at the table of trends then grow old and die. A school has nothing to do with learning, it hates learning. It exists to criticize and fail people and thereby to prepare eagles (remember?) to work for a living and be thankful for a job; to develop specimens to be sent into outer space as experimental objects of commerce; to develop professional athletes as sacrifices to the entertainment gods; to develop doctors to convince you that you have need for prescribed drugs and surgeries which are commercial bonanzas; to train lawyers to convince you that crazy laws are to be respected at all cost and to put on a show that tricks you into thinking you cannot possibly get along with each other without one. Doctors, lawyers, scientists, accountants, all operate by a secret language you cannot understand making them appear to know something you do not. It is only an appearance. Look through the veil. Every person since time began has known easily and readily that apples eventually fall from trees and that is a good thing.

All that is important is for everyone to understand is what humans have become. We are willing to give our very lives to serve a system that exists solely for the purpose of perpetuating itself. In all cases, the original purpose for each system has long ago been discarded as obsolete. Do not take my word for it. Look. See. If you are a policeman or firefighter you know this. If you are a teacher you know this. If you are a lawyer you know this. And so on and on and on. If you make coffee at Starbuck's you know this.