The Little Purple Notebook On How To Escape From This Universe
Copyleft � 1998 by Maximilian J. Sandor, Ph.D.
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Prep Trap Example 2: 'on-the-roll'
An advice echoed by well-meaning gurus is Gotamo's recommendation to 'not
to be idle'. Nowadays, more often than not, this advice misses its mark. If
one looks around, except for some pensionnaires and some who live off
public benefits, people are constantly busy, busy, busy...
The times where people could goof off a year or two without putting
themselves completely outside the social context are long gone. Instead,
the 'on-the-roll' trap finds victims in all walks of life.
The most visible victims are 'professionals', doctors, lawyers, business
people and the like. The most invisible ones are members of sects or cults
and our brothers and sisters in the asylums.
The name 'on-the-roll' trap describes the condition already fairly well:
people do not have time anymore to sit down and think for themselves even
once a day for a minute or two.
Every minute of their days is completely planned, scheduled, and reserved.
There is no time left anymore for following spontaneous, creative
impulses. Only machines are better slaves because they don't need sleep
nor pension funds.
With the loss of the ability to determine one's own calendar comes a
significant loss of freedom.
Nothing demonstrates this more than when the 'on-the-roll' trap is being
combined with the 'p.t.' trap. Humans, forced into tight schedules with
their attention fixed to only the 'problem at hand', have lost
self-determinism to such a degree that it makes a rabbit look like a
freedom fighter.
It is not a mere coincidence that this combination of traps is the hallmark
of the military. The pattern, however, is the same for Marines or surgeons,
lawyers or UPS drivers.
No time anymore to see the flowers at the wayside, the play of waves in the
puddles on the driveway when it's raining, watching the course of the
clouds in the sky...
If Gotamo would be walking down Westwood Boulevard these days, I'm very,
very sure he would say "Hey, you guys! Wait a minute! Sit down for a sec
and THINK!".
Of course, nobody would take him serious and it may very well be that he
would be trampled over by the hordes of people trying to get lunch and be
back in the mill within an hour.
The reason that the all-present and pervasive 'on-the-roll' trap can be
classified as a 'prep trap' is that 'action' is a necessary starting point
for most quests. But the preparatory 'action', such as earning money to
start something new, has to mound into whatever the original quest was
asking for. If not, someone 'earning money' will look like a dog chasing
its tail.
Just like my favorite button says:
"Remember, even if you're ahead in the rat race,
you're still a rat!"
Now, I could write a lot more about this subject, but I have still a
meeting at 4:05 pm and then I'll have to pickup someone who arrives at LAX
at 5:34pm but leaves at 5:58 on another flight, and then I'll have dinner
with an old friend at 7:15pm sharp, after which I'll have to rush home to
see a TV spot on our institute at 9:09pm on Channel 2, and I promised to
call a friend in Europe at 9:30pm PST. I think I forgot something,
tho,...where the heck is my calendar???
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Copyleft � 1998 by Maximilian J. Sandor, Ph.D.
