Comments on: Breakout from the controlled ordinary mind

By: D.

D. — Sun, 02 Aug 2015 11:10:55 +0000

“To be a free man, one must have a universe of one’s own.”

Wonder if this harkens to a Native American belief of many worlds creating one world? There’s a Hopi expression used to describe writers as creators of worlds, and mad gods.

Excuse me need to catch the shuttle back to Mowverse, a universe ruled by cats. There is one ruled by dogs as well, Woofverse. I go betwixt the two easily enough, belonging to the Dadverse. 🙂

By: arcadia11

arcadia11 — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 17:24:59 +0000

it is a brilliant piece. i read it twice. i also like your ‘never fully came to grips with the insanity of normality’. i see a bumper sticker in there somewhere.

i am in san anselmo. what bar was it? lol.

By: bjacob131

bjacob131 — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 14:52:10 +0000

Personally, I don’t believe confusion induction or sensory overload is the path to the good life.

By: Dimitri

Dimitri — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 13:31:41 +0000

I once worked as a computer programmer as part of a team, where if the project was late, everyone had to stay late and watch the slow people work, until it was finished. Individual achievement was not considered, only the group’s. My work was finished first, and I contributed most of the original ideas. I soon quit and started working as a contractor in my own office. But then, with my clients I noticed another flavor of the same basic mindset, as resentment toward someone they could not control as an employee. I even got sued in an effort to make me do what they wanted on their terms, not mine. The more I encountered this sort of thing, the more I wondered what was going on. Deep distrust of the outsider, the one who refused to be a part of the mental collective.

Posts like this one crystallize for me exactly what I was running into. Thank you Jon!

By: Kit Watkins

Kit Watkins — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 08:04:15 +0000

I like the way you think and write. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

By: middleway

middleway — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 06:34:35 +0000

Brilliant piece! Though he wrote of it extensively, Philip never fully came to grips with the insanity of normality. At a bar in San Anselmo he wrote on a cocktail napkin, “When all is calm and in perfect balance, there is no movement, no life…”