Cool commentary on current human peccadilloes MACROSCOPIC TOPICS Toe-holds on the slopes of the MATTERHORN of Human Maturation. It is a struggle for each human to make the long climb from infancy through adulthood to the final quietus. These topics do not pretend to tell any one human how to live their life; they only try to encourage thinking on the various phases. EXX-RAYS FROM THE AGING CAGE Visions from the good and productive side of growing older. The purpose in these visions is to throw some light on the need for a positive attitude. Exercise for the brain keeps major negatives outside the cage. Together with appropriate physical initiatives that make sure the mental walls are free from sealed cage doors. COSMIC CYBERTREKS Explorations in the mega void of the universe . . . a challenge. Time is eternal, and space is infinite in the cosmos. In terms of measuring events in the universe, where occurrences are matured over many millions of years, using Earth's rules as a guide for establishing cosmic laws is an invisible drop of spit in the seas. The trek experiences are fascinating and challenge accepted dogma for so many concepts of what is logical out in the void.

THREE WAYS TO VIEW THE WORLD

Way Outside the Rigid Box of Ordinary Thinking about Our Human Strivings on Earth Today and EvermoreBy WILLIAM SALO

Balboa Press

Copyright © 2012 William Salo
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4525-5730-4

Contents

1. Mankind's Ego Need: The Mighty Muscle of Motivation..........................................12. Cosmic Allusions Attracted by Subconscious Cybernetic Symbiosis..............................53. The First Five Seconds: Capricious Key to Instant Rapport....................................114. Total Commitment: Do or Die in the Valley of Death...........................................155. Wisdom: Like Good Wine Over Time.............................................................216. Modern Roaring Woman: Butting Away at the Stone Walls of Male Tradition......................257. Aphoristic Mind Benders: Trite and Tricky....................................................298. Fate and Destiny: Two Forces Handling Human History..........................................329. The Big Me: Frozen Philosophy in a Frenetic World............................................3710. Ego-Theism: Adoration of These Feet of Clay.................................................4211. Tortoise Travails: Trampled to Death in Hare's Race to the Top..............................4512. Galactic Revelations: Data Bytes from the Great Beyond......................................4913. Nationhood: Tic-Tac-Toeing on the Battered Belly of a Pregnant World........................5214. Honesty: Ragged Doll on the Cosmic Stages of Power..........................................5715. Parental Paradox: Sowing Cosmic Seeds of Wisdom upon Fertile Soil...........................6216. Reflection Time: Tangling with Some Low Points..............................................6917. Cynicism: Huge Pebbles in the Smooth-Flowing Rivers of Time.................................7118. Progressive Planning: Tuning Out the Fiddlers Stroking Down Trend News......................7519. Micromanagement: Ego Power Trips under Phony Cloaks of Efficiency...........................8020. (A) Renaissance Man: Sculpture of or Sculpted by the Iron Fists of Fate.....................85(B) Rhythm and Symmetry: Two-Part Harmony in Verbal Intercourse.................................85(C) Personality: Hot Wax and Honey on the Muffins of Communications.............................8521. Poetic Interlude: Take a break from Prose...................................................9222. The Magi in Imagination: The Thaumaturgic Carpet in the Human Mind..........................9523. Pure Logic: Bedrock under Life's Realities..................................................10024. Feelings and Attitudes: Prime Keystones in the Arches of Life...............................10425. Mental Energizers: Prospecting in the Mind..................................................10926. Equilibrium: Impossible Balance of Forces...................................................11127. Conscience: Nature's Punching Bag in the Human Comfort Zone.................................11728. Humor: Champagne Bubbles in the Lager of Life...............................................12029. Infidelity: Mainlining the Life Sport Locomotive............................................12330. Time and Space Realities: Some Rules on Planet Earth........................................12831. Taps: The Last Post in the Macroscopic Series...............................................132

Chapter One

Macroscopic Topics (No. 1)

Mankind's Ego Need: The Mighty Muscle of Motivation

All true motivation in the macro book is deeply rooted in the visceral egos of all humankind on Earth. The ego, a demanding, schizophrenic bitch, is centered on two main characteristics; pride and vanity. To most humans, these are often thought to be the same. Not true.

To be well rounded, egotistically speaking, is not merely necessary but is mandatory for all motivated individuals in Earth's highly competitive, widely varied personal environments. However, the weasel in the woodpile that sits in judgment calls for each human to find equitable balance between pride and vanity, bringing balance to the decisions that all must make on our highways of destiny, so that the fates and fortunes in our lives can be positive and productive. The challenges are several and hold us fully responsible for what we do and become in our individual lives.

Maintaining a sense of pride is a tough and often lonely mindset, and requires self-instilled discipline. Mostly, the only reward is a measure of self-satisfaction that must be covert if it is to avoid a segue into vanity. Pride is experienced and sustained from a nucleus of successful conquests over challenges that have great importance to human existence. There is pleasure in such accomplishments and, hence, marked pride settles within the soul.

The gales of vanity take little effort to weather. One can enjoy the accolades by being openly receptive to the wash of popularity, real or devised, that can come sweeping through one's cognizance and into willing acceptance. Performances in events of real or imagined interest to idol worshippers begets a sense of self-worth that is overwhelming and addictive. If it is not harshly vetted to separate fact from fiction, common sense goes down the drain, and a very illusory feeling of regal importance takes over. Once bitten by the asp of vanity, a return to real values is only found in the cathartic scrutiny of criticism. Decamping from the pedestal of fame is never a life-forgiving exercise. The payoff is often depression, alcoholic nightmares, and a serious mental fall from grace. Now, one might think that vanity has no redeeming graces. That would be too harsh a criticism. For instance, all great performers on public stages need the feelings of importance that are intrinsic in the florid atmosphere of artists, politicians, and authors. They often must evince emotions that are not their own. If one is to reach the deepest wells of emotional talent, supporting credibility in a world of creative incredibility, then vanity is the plinth on which success can support a productive role.

To affect a meaningful role in business or artistic worlds, regular, personal evaluation of the balance between pride and vanity is mandatory. If crossover does occur, when the wrong virtue dominates unsuitable milieus, the price that is paid is a killer in due course. Many examples have laced the history of personal downfalls from such exercises. The human ego is a tough taskmaster when it comes to behavioral choices. If the choice between a private role of pride and the public role of vanity is wisely utilized, the end product of success in careers, and life itself, is well endowed. The alternative is what is called mega ego (ME). It evolves when its possessor craves godlike adulation from all and sundry. Most ME types immolate themselves or else lose their sanity.

Pride or vanity? To be or not to be, that is the question. It bears some cosmic thinking at a deeper level in the human mind. This contemplative task cannot be foisted on outsiders. It stays at home. And that is the rub. It is easier to revel in the praise, fair or phony, of vanity than to irk beneath the rasp of pride. It depends on how one sees the face in the mirror of one's own reality.

Macroscopic Topics (No. 2)

Cosmic Allusions Attracted by Subconscious Cybernetic Symbiosis

In the workaday world, where most of human laypersons dwell, the use and even the understanding of upper-crusty words are rarely experienced and, hence, are...