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Formative Influence of My Second Childhood: "What About Bob?"

posted January 7, 2009 - 3:07pm
Formative Influence of My Second Childhood: "What About Bob?"

What About Bob was one of the films that were most-formative in my brain-reconstruction—viva free cable for hospitals!

I had to graduate from the brick-&-mortar Jungle Law (similar to "Eat or Be Eaten," 'Jump-for-the-Money') and replace it with the Kingdom Law ('Seek the Will of Your Sender through the Chain of Senders Ending with You').

The moral of What About Bob is the truth about "education"—how the trance of education blinds you to the way things are.

Dr. Leo meets Bob as a patient, and thus expected Bob to remain 'a patient' through his vacation-time.

Bob started the vacation-time as an intrusive patient, but he stopped being a patient when Dr. Leo ordered him to take a vacation.

Dr. Leo was so hypnotized by his schooling that he didn't even realize (that Bob had stopped being the patient) when Bob said he wasn't being the patient!

That's part of 'the dark truth' of education George Carlin hinted at; but Napoleon Hill enlightened us a little on the bright side a few decades earlier when he reminded us of the root of the word 'education': "educe - to manifest from within."

That makes education quite-literally 'the regurgitation of newly swallowed intellect you've always had.'

Truly-proper schooling involves "challenging the student to get back to 'themselves' through larger-&-larger piles of information"— a kind of 'continuing to keep the equation equal to "You" while adding more-and-more variables.'

But society blinds your eyes to from that; 'graduation' comes to be a call to "go prodigal," the graduates forgetting that they need to keep solving the prime variable. They think that the solutions they're 'schooled' to be are the only solutions they need to be.

But no; I don't care-how many degrees you've earned or -how many schooling-hours you've paid for, sometimes you need to be 100% and sometimes you need to be 35 35ths!



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