To thine own self be true. Gee, that’s a great idea, but … are we sure we understand what, exactly, that might actually MEAN???
To thine own self — okay, what the Hell is the self? There are a wide variety of educated guesses about selfness and the nature of the self, the self versus the Self, and much, much more, most of which is total nonsense, and who’s to tell the difference?
And “be true” — what is truth? One may as well ask, what is beauty? “Truth” and “beauty”, both single-word phrases that you might expect out of the mouth of the average Canadian of the non-French variety, although both English and French Canadians might well ask, in the presence of a detectable amount of sulphur dioxide, “Who cut the cheese?”.
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” means just what??? I mean, I think I know what it means, but I wouldn’t place a large bet on my guess, and does it depend entirely on just the eye of the beholder, or are there other factors?
Most of all, is there an objective truth? An objective beauty? If there is, it’s certainly escaping me at the moment — I’m observing Republicans placing fake ballot boxes around California, where they intend to collect ballots and throw out any that are Democrat ballots.
That doesn’t sound like objective truth to me, and it certainly doesn’t qualify as any degree of beauty.
Well, the Hell with them, all of them. One thing I can tell you, as a psychic sensitive and remote viewer, most politicians are crooks — only a small percentage of them are honest, and the few that are don’t seem to get very far.
There has to be a reason for that, but I’m not going to work it out here, when I could just as easily direct you to several really important films that you need to see before you leave this planet.
I know — doesn’t it sound delightful? But let’s look at some of your video viewing options.
- DUCK SOUP — This is a Marx Brothers romp through a dictatorship ruled by Groucho — if you haven’t seen it, you’ll wonder how come it had escaped you all these years.
- MURDER BY DEATH — A really terrific Broadway stage play adapted for the small screen — you’ll love it.
- CLUE — The ultimate companion to “Murder by Death”, with some terrific casting that you will appreciate — especially Peter Falk’s performance.
- HAUNTED HONEYMOON — Really complex plot, counterplot and sub-plots twist and turn as you’re kept guessing right until the resolution scene. A truly amazing performance by Dom DeLuise.
- IN-LAWS — A spy drama to end all spy dramas, this comedy tears through the whole cloak-and-dagger conspiracy theory jungle and ends up making sense.
- REAL MEN — The perfect companion piece to “In-Laws”, but see them in the order given.
- MY FELLOW AMERICANS — You won’t stop laughing the entire time. The perfect capper for “In-Laws” and “Real Men”, this is the perfect film to watch NOW.
- BOYS FROM SYRACUSE — With comedienne Martha Raye, this romp through ancient Greece looks more like a romp through Rome, but they had a lot of costumes left over from a Roman flick, so they used those — nobody knows the difference between a Roman “toga” and a Greek “chiton” under a “chlamys”.
- BEETLEJUICE — You need to see this again, in these worst of times — it’ll help you get your priorities straight, as you watch the world go to Hell.
- STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE — The series started with the fourth episode, as you’ll recall, and it was the only one worth watching, as it turns out — note particularly the lack of slick effects in this first and freshest of efforts by George Lucas to get his name, “Luke”, out there.
- BELL, BOOK & CANDLE — I’ve recommended this many times — it’s a good introduction to General Magic, and at the same time, it’ll give you a realistic view of what it was like to live in Greenwich Village in the fifties.
And for reading, I can suggest The Mark Twain Comic Reader, in which every subject is covered — you can’t go wrong. Personally, I like the explanations of why the Senate is still the same, after almost two hundred years since Twain’s critique.
Want something to listen to?
- CELIA CRUZ
- BARTOK’S CONCERTO FOR ORCHESTRA
- STAN FREBERG MODESTLY PRESENTS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
How about some ideas for interesting things on youtube? Are you kidding? You ought to be able to dodge about and find some interesting stuff on youtube just by letting your hands guide you through it.
Instinct pays off bigtime on youtube, but don’t get stuck in one trend or follow one theme too much.
Whenever learning something new, always be kind to yourself — forgive yourself for making mistakes — they’re part of learning.
Never assume that you ought to be able to do something the first time you try. Some things take time to learn, and patience is the first test.
Excitement, interest, enthusiasm are all traps, leading to nowhere. You need good discipline, and it’s within your power to DECIDE to like something, to be interested.
It’s self-created “Conscious Enthusiasm”, high attention with low magnetic attraction, pioneered in our time by John and Antonietta Lilly at the Human/Dolphin Foundation back in the 20th century — but that’s history.
Come to think of it, this is also history, at least according to my History 101 textbook back in the 37th century.
I always wondered why it suddenly stopped and then history picked back up again in 2650, which is renamed “Year 1”.
The Dark Ages start now, maybe this very week, and here we are, right in the thick of it, right where it’s all happening.
Wow, remind me to skip History 201 next year when I have Mr. Wilson as our Home Room admin. — anything to get him away from teaching history again. I hope he doesn’t see this note.
So I started this treatise with the core concept “To thine own self be true”, and I don’t think I’ve actually penetrated the meaning of the phrase, except to say that if you don’t do this, you won’t get through to Buckaroo Banzai like John Parker did.
You’ll have to go onto dialup, and you know what THAT means — double kitchen duty. You will need to stash away several months worth of rice & beans. Don’t even ASK why. Just do it.
So remember the Republican Suckers & Losers Lament, “What’s in it for me?”. Don’t forget to include a whimpering “victim” mewl to it — that always gets them in the gut.
Does it occur to anyone else that it’s true what Trump’s schoolmates said — he’s a big baby, look at him cry.
Did you know that Trump ran away from military school? He was given two weeks in the bull-ring for those 15 demerits, and I have the evidence right here.
Besides which I was there. I used to be a varsity wrestler in the Southeast Conference, and wrestled — and won — against VMI, and other military academy teams.
I won against Brenau University in Gainsville, Georgia, which was a women’s school just down the road from Riverside Military Academy, where I paid my debt to civilization.
Luckily, I didn’t owe much. What idiot would give me a credit card???
See You At The Top!!!
gorby