The Limitations Of Your Meat Sack

Talent, Ability, and The Limitations of Your Meat Sack

The human mind is a computer. It is a computer that runs the poorly maintained machine that propels most people through the daily grind of their own worthless and pathetic lives. I read a blog the other day called The Self: Why You Do The Things You Do. This was a blog that was basically a citation of a self help book written by, not a psychologist, not a guru, not even a social philosopher, none of those things, this is a self help farce that is required reading in many get rich plans and written by a plastic surgeon who was so concerned with the way people who are beautiful still think they are ugly that he decided to put all of his hard nosed scientific knowledge to use telling us all that if we believed something to be true strongly enough that the power of our own mind is strong enough to change the objective way that the world works.

This is a lie.

While we are capable through belief to change the way we THINK about something it takes physical work to change the way the world IS and even the amount of change that we can affect in the world is drawn by very real limitations of our own physicality and the world in general. If you are stupid, chances are that no matter how hard you would like to believe that you aren’t you will always be stupid. Yeah, that’s harsh but let’s look at it another way.

There are two types of reality out there in the world. The first type of reality is subjective reality that while it may not exist in a vacuum and most times it doesn’t, it is still defined by every individual and how they perceive the world around them. Therefore, if you believe that there is a God out there in heaven looking out for everything that you do in your life and you believe it strongly enough to continue to believe it despite what anyone else has to say on the matter then as far as you are concerned then there is a God who is looking out for you which very well might give you the psychic resolve to push through another day. Not only that but your God will also give you a basic code to live by and cause you to exist within rules in a clearly defined universe where everything is explained and most importantly, you aren’t alone. This is fine, but does your belief in a God make for 100% proof positive that outside the walls of your mind that there HAS to be one? No.

Thus, subjective reality is overcome in every instance by objective reality. No matter how hard the psychotic lunatic believes that if he lets go of the ball he is holding that the ball will fall upward, it won’t. He might perceive the ball as falling upward but the fact remains that to everyone else who isn’t sharing this guy’s subjective delusion is going to see the ball falling to the ground.

Just because YOU personally believe something doesn’t mean that the world is going to suddenly start revolving in a way that matches your personal beliefs. Psycho-Cybernetics, The power of Positive Thinking, and all of those half cocked mind over matter ideas all read the same way to me. They all not only make little sense but they are counter-intuitive and irrational.

Think about it this way. While it may not be a good idea to scream and flail and jump and flip out about getting a flat tire on the way to work is it necessarily any better to sit and try to recondition your brain to have you sit up with a smile on your face while you try to change your tire while saying something along the lines of “This is great!” No, that is stupid.

Now does that mean that I am denying that what you think about something is in a large way responsible for why you do the things you do? No, but there is an even better reason why and most of the time you don’t even have to think about it to still do it. What it all stems from and what you do with the majority of your time is based on the four poles of human desire. You don’t even have to think about these things but oftentimes people try to attach some higher thought to them because as a thinking creature we like to feel as though we have some higher meaning and reason in everything that we do. The truth is far more unsavory.

The first core human desire and the desire of any other animal on this planet is for SURVIVAL. Every person, deep down just wants to keep on ticking and they will do all sorts of crazy things and do all kinds of things to make sure that it happens. Take for example, the way someone’s memory might blank out at parts to hide the reel so to speak from the prying eyes of the person who lived through it. If your own mind, that computer of yours takes something away from you like that it is generally safe to assume that you are best suited for leaving it alone. Your brain does what it needs to do in order to survive. The way you eat, sleep, and take care of your life functions without even really thinking about it shows that your body more than your brain even wants to stay alive.

Even the way that human beings cling together in social groups, religions, communities, countries, or whatever the banner that we're talking about reflects the desire to survive. Long ago our ancestors realized that the odds of survival are greater for a being that works with the group rather than working alone.

We also not only desire our own personal survival but also the survival of our own distinct genetic pattern. Unconditional love between parent and offspring is biological and the desire to have children is biological as well.

PROPERTY is the next human desire. We all want to have things of our own whether we earned them or not. The reason that the Constitution of the United States was written was to ensure that the government would no longer have the right or privilege to take away the property of the people living here. Some people will play by the rules in order to obtain the things that they want versus the things that they need but some don’t, it all depends on how powerful the desire for the property is and how equipped the person in question is to obtain said property on his or her own.

The desire for property is also for show. All people want to use the things they own on order to accomplish their own three core desires. Say you want to buy a nice fancy car because you have no dick. This is in order to attract a physically pleasing mate, just like in the wild.

The third human desire is the desire for CONTROL. Control is an important aspect of human existence and it's effects are seen in almost every aspect of human existence. Where would we be if our ancestors had never learned to control their environment? The desire for control also stems into our desire to name and categorize everything in neat and totally understandable little boxes. The last thing that anyone really wants to admit is that they don't have all the answers and that in the face of everything we cannot truly be sure of anything let alone our place here in this universe.

People also desire to control one another. Even people that are submissive in nature seek a manner of control in their life in that they give up control to someone that they believe will keep them safe from harm. Every aspect of control we exert on an obstacle both human and natural, physical, or emotional, real or imaginary, reconfirms us of our own existence.

The third and last pole of human desire is the desire for the INTANGIBLE. Because we are thinking and dreaming creatures we also naturally seek to have our dreams become realities. This can be seen as the idea that someone had to build a great huge building the likes of which has never been seen before. Anything that we don't know we CAN do but still strive to do anyway is intangible.

Religion and the desire and unknown and ultimately unknowable supernatural force is also an expression of our desire for the intangible. We don't want to believe we are alone in this life and merely replication machines designed by millions of years of evolution and social conditioning to believe that we are something better. Whether we are or not is not the purpose of this.

We are limited in what we can do by natural law. You can change WHO you are by mind over matter but you cannot change WHAT you are.