Days until first song: 19
2015
Impulses can be responsive; we can take control of these impulses and direct them ourselves.
We can improve the ratio of self authority v. external authority.
Impulses can be reactive.
We are an alarmingly reactive species.
There are unscrupulous people who know this about your brain.
Anything like the emergency alert by the teleprompter in your living room, controlled by the people on the other end of the outlet where it is plugged in.
That appliance, applied to your brain, can direct these impulses as much as any politics, ideology, religion, or any other marketing campaign.
They can prompt these impulses and they can direct these impulses.
Everyone wants a slice.
Impulses can be responsive.
We can take control of these impulses and direct them ourselves.
We can improve the ratio of self authority v. external authority.
We study about ourselves.
We learn how the brains we possess function.
These are organs with functions.
The brain is an organ of organs.
The Juicy King of Juicy Kings.
The impulse is not the flaw, the impulse is the jewel.
Impulses, in any dimension, simultaneous, integrated, delicious; dripping with essence, the dew, reabsorbed, succulent and owned wholly by the possessor, not for rent, not under a spell, not for sale, and completely un-directed by anything external.
The self-directed impulse flows like hair and hips.
That’s the description of you catching yourself before getting tricked into giving yourself to the phantasm of external authority over your mind.
Those are the ones.
They are the impulses categorized under “thoughts”.
They stimulate impulses.
We have thoughts.
We have learned the difference.
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One of the favorite things about music for me as a young guy was all of it, the whole process. How about the anticipation? There was a lot of excitement for us. Sometimes people would wait outside the record store just to get their hands on that new record as soon as the store opened. It wasn’t just for the music, it was multifaceted. There was visual a…