Friday, November 25, 2022

Excerpt from reel to reel tapes July 1983

Would that be a pretty good “good” to have to you? (No) That wouldn’t be if you had total charge of it? That wouldn’t worthwhile to you would it? (No not to me) But if you could have charge of your world that you could have it all just, (well I would not have things like starving children) well that’s not in your world, this is your world I’m talking about. That’s their world. But if you was in charge of everything in your world, you could have it pretty well couldn’t you? Cause you could have anything you wanted is that right, huh? 

 You would have it pretty well couldn’t you? Is that right? And before you could have charge of everything in your world you’d have to start with I am doing this instead of blaming me or Joe Blow or Charlie Cartrocks or somebody else wouldn’t you? Cause if you blame you can’t have charge of it could you? Because you’ve given me the authority to run your world if you blame me. Huh? Is that correct? So the first thing is as long as we blame someone we have made an authority, haven’t we? Cause if I blame you for my attitudes I have made you my authority, is that right? Huh? Is that correct? And then if I have made you my authority I’ve given you my power to control me and my circumstances over to you, and you probably don’t even know it, so it’s probably thrown in the trash can, you wouldn’t even use it, is that right? And hear I’ve thrown my power away, and you’ve got it, and you don’t even know you have it so it’s wasted, isn’t it? So as long as man blames the environment he is an effect of the environment and he’s made the environment his boss, it’s his authority. You see man was given Dominion and authority over all things, and the first thing he wanted to do is get rid of it, he wanted that not this, and he had this so he immediately begin to give it away didn’t he? Huh? I wonder if the good that we can conceive of is to be entirely in charge of my world. That would be a start wouldn’t it? And before you could have entire charge and have no authorities over me, total freedom, therefore I would have nothing controlling me, I would have to start with maybe I am doing this. And then maybe I would have to know what I am doing, so possibly if we started with a question like, “What am I doing?” We would begin to catch around. Maybe what I’m doing is giving all my power away, and making you my authority, and blaming you for not taking good care of it.