da Rubio de Bacle (an inside joke?)

Very recently, the supposedly learned, educated, semi- (or better) talented talkers, and tweeters, and writers, have flooded the major news outlets with the JOKE that occurred (for all our - the insiders - entertainment), and the tape-loop of the JOKE has been played, and replayed thousands of times so far, and will probably be repeated many times in the near future.

However, what has been missed by all of them, including those on the sidelines who haven't said a word, or had a thought about it (as damn hilarious as it was... though, perhaps only to the insiders), is the FACT (for some in the, let's call it "increasing one's self-awareness game"), that this robotic thought-based tape-looping that is so damn hilarious when spoken aloud to other people, is totally missed by EVERYONE when it occurs silently in one's own head. Ever notice THAT?

THAT is what is the most hilarious part about all of this. That it happens so frequently in EVERYONE, yet is totally missed, to the point of being unknown by those same EVERYONE. (Here is where you should insert your own realization of how true that is.) The next most hilarious part, is that very, very, VERY FEW realize this, even after being reminded about it just now! But then again... perhaps this whole piece was just an INSIDE JOKE for Insiders.

All these tape loops are harmless enough of course - they are just a major, major leak in the plumbing, and massive drain on the rather limited energy stores from which all thought derives - but they are highly suggestive of a brain that is not even capable of Waking Up to what is really going on in that five-inch gap between the ears, and Awakening From the dream that has almost, if not totally captured the imagination of the human species at large. These self-running, stimulus-response, automatic thought streams take up SO MUCH TIME (that, as was suggested above, is mostly missed by everyone) that to really utilize the human brain for that which it COULD BE used, is simply out of reach for most people. That is a shame... but then again... perhaps this whole piece was just an INSIDE JOKE for Insiders.

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Following is a point of clarification for those out there who still don't get it: it is NOT just the five, fifteen, twenty or more word, too often repeated Tape Loop that is the silliness here (like what we saw being played out, and repeated, FOUR TIMES on TV the other night, without any apparent irony or self-awareness from the perpetrator that it was even occurring), it is the short, medium, and long or even longer Stories that continue to be repeated, over and over and over again, mostly to oneself alone, but also on a variety of external communication outlets... without ANY AWARENESS. You know the classic example: a twenty-year smoker or drinker, finally learns from his family doctor that he is going to die real soon if he doesn't immediately QUIT those damnable and highly toxic tobacco sticks and/or alcoholic beverages, and never use them again, and then for the rest of his days, he goes on this verbal TIRADE to anyone and everyone within ear-shot, that they too must STOP IT NOW. The person has become "stuck on a meme", and can't get the thing out of his head, and it plays in there for years and years, while the person remains totally clueless about all of it... unless he begins to find out, but lacks the skills to deal with it properly, and jumps into an empty well out of frustration.

(Enter the "teachings", if one is lucky enough to encounter an appropriate one that even KNOWS ABOUT THIS! Sometimes, it is better to stay asleep, than to Wake Up too soon, or in the wrong way.)