Saturday, November 13, 2004

Melody

Everyone is singing the same melody - duh da duh duh da duh - and you can hear it the moment they open their mouths (or read their surrogate words). Their tune is so similar, so familiar in fact, that you can turn the sound off and still "get their song." That is, you know what song they're singing.

The way this works might seem mysterious, but it isn't mysterious at all, once you learn to hear your OWN internal subjective strawman the tyrant has setup, off of which to bounce his/her ideas.

Do you know who the strawman is, and who the tyrant is? Well, when you don't, then the tyrant is you and the strawman is somebody else - a news reporter, an email poster, a book you're reading, a conversation partner, etc. - that is, some source outside of you, "to bounce your ideas off of."

And the dynamic that goes entirely missed, is the effort to modify the position, behavior, of the other - which the tyrant has learned to do since about early grade school, and the melody, of course, is in a staccato rhythm, tit-for-tat, in eighth and sixteenth notes, like a cacophonous jumble of notes coming from and going nowhere but noisily insane.

ps- this report, is not a comment on someone ELSE'S tune, it's a newly represented reporting of the observation of tune-making, get it?

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