Simple Logic: The New Mysticism
by About how lost in bull-flop our world has become.
What a dumb-ass world we live in. Progress and technology have almost brought us to our knees when it comes to the most simple of tasks. Do you remember when you used to be able to buy an item in a shop without having to come last in the queue? I don’t mean the people queue; I mean the queue behind the tax man, bookkeeper, and stock-taker. I refer to the dreaded scanner that does all these calculations for the store; fine when it works, but when it flat-lines you see where you come in the food chain. The simple transaction is now redundant as the shop assistant has to get help and this can take, well as long as it takes really, regardless of your needs as, wait for it, a valued customer!!??
How about this one then? I saw a news report on a new and interesting way to keep fit, healthy and meet new friends. All over England people are meeting up and WALKING together. Wow, this is an earth shattering revelation isn’t it? Walking is good for mind, body and spirit, who would have thought?
If you look in the classifieds of the national papers you will see “life coaches” who charge money to tell rich people how to enjoy their life. Excuse me while I loose my lunch. The best way for a rich person to feel good about themselves is to help someone who isnt rich. A simple truth; the joy of life is in giving.
Just exactly what happened to us to become so helpless in seeing the simplest of solutions for the most fundamental problems in the world.
Maybe we have just become arrogant in our own assumed greatness? Maybe the leaders and great minds of the 22nd century consider a simple logical solution to be beneath them. I don’t know, but with the western world on its knees at the moment, all thanks to these great minds and leaders, maybe its about time the “simple” man had his turn.
This reminds me of the book by Jerzy Kosiński, “Being There” which was made into a film starring Peter Sellers, (sadly his last), in which a simple gardener who has never been outside the gates of a huge estate is mistaken for a political guru. The worlds leaders hang on his every word but he is an absolute simpleton who talks of nothing but gardening.
I don’t want to sound too simple here but as every gardener knows, you reap what you sow.
Liked it
