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, October 11, 2021

 MORE ON SYSTEMS


Systems are by and large dumb and dishonest. This is another way to recognize that you are involved in a system. Here are a few examples. Chris Columbus was sailing West to get to the East, he thought. He named the residents he found when he struck what is now called America Indians because he thought he was in India. Later, when it was determined Columbus was greatly in error about his whereabouts, did the system he worked for correct the error? No. Until this day the aboriginal peoples in America are called Indians. Had they been called Americans, oh boy, it would have been far more difficult to justify completely displacing them. Correct? But since they are Indians, well, Hell, they are in the wrong place. Then, when black slavery was abolished it was thought, “Hell, send them back to Africa!” They too are in the wrong place. "This land is our land!" cried the immigrant. And it has long been taught that white children are superior to black children because they make much better grades on average in school. Schools they build! Duh? All traditions assembled under any system are contradictory and confusing, and especially so for children who are not yet dumbed down. They are taught to sit in an assigned seat for up to an hour at a time without talking to a neighbor or getting up and moving about. And they are taught to be friendly and to get plenty of exercise. And to stand up for their right to be free. They are taught not to ask a neighbor child for help on a test and taught it is divine to be helpful. They are taught sex is bad and that it is the most fun there ever was. They teach children to restrain and to assert. Teach them to dress alike and to be themselves and not to be vain. Children are trained to refrain from judgement and to judge everybody. Violence is condemned except for obligations to kill when it is required. One should respect and honor all people and yet despise your rivals in every contest and think and behave as if your school is better than their school, your country is better than theirs and your family is better. You are taught to love your parents even when you do not. And on and on and on. I even once read a sign nailed to the door of a church widely attended in Austin Texas that stated If you are hungry and in need of food or you need shelter please contact the appropriate governmental authorities as we do not provide such help. It is beginning to become  commonly recognized that to be free requires one to be free from conflicting ideals. When it is widely understood there will be no one to serve in a system of any kind. Systems will be obsolete and only free humans will there be. You may think this to be impossible. It will happen when enough take the trouble to find out for themselves a way far superior to any manmade system that works for everybody because it was set by the force that made the Universe and just as possible as life on Earth itself.

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