Automatic controlling means ‘controlling that we can't help getting caught up in’, controlling that we're obliged to get involved in, whether we want to or not. This is an unfamiliar notion inasmuch as we normally assume that if there's controlling...
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The self can only exist within an environment that validates it, an environment that supports and facilitates it. Outside of this special environment, there can be no self. The self or ego is a function of this environment therefore -...
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Control is our God. When we see something that we like then we exercise control so as to enable us to obtain it. When we come across something that we don't like, something that we don't value, then we exercise...
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The ‘agreed-upon reality’ which we all inhabit is of course a prison, just as Michel Foucault says. We have no freedom not to inhabit it, in other words; we never had the freedom not to inhabit it, in other words....
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Our firm beliefs about the world are compensatory in nature - they are a compensatory device whose function is to make up for the irreducible uncertainty of reality as it actually is. We make up for not being able to...
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There is only one way for things to be in the Artificial World and that is the way that they have been specified as being, the way that they have been officially stated as being. This couldn't be any other...
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Systems are always perfectly 'null', always perfectly 'hollow', but this is the one thing we will never see (or never suspect) from the inside of the system, as it were. We can’t see things 'as they are' from inside the...
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Reality doesn't work by rules (there are no rules for reality). Logic works by rules, machines work by rules, thinking works by rules’ - all sorts of things work by rules, but not reality. Sewing machines, toasters and clocks work...
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Is it possible for us to live within the grooves that have been set out for us to live in, prepared in advance for us to live in, and yet be fulfilled and at peace? On the face of it,...
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The world we have been given (and within which we are required to live our lives) is absurdly narrow, absurdly rigid, absurdly lacking in any actual content. It's a simulated world, in other words, rather than being ‘the actual real...
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The way we know confirmation isn't the same as information (but only the superficial appearance of it) is by observing that no change ever occurs as a result of it. Information, on the other hand, means change - that's what...
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The laziest way of life is simply to copy what everyone else is doing, so that we don’t have to work anything out ourselves! Everyone copies what everyone else is doing and - as a result - no one actually...
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The one thing technology can never help us with is in being original - technology is all about ‘efficient duplication’, it’s all about the ‘realisation’ (or ‘reification’) of generic ideas, and this is another type of thing entirely. When we become...
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Playfulness comes out of ‘a place of plenitude’, it comes out of a place where there is ‘already everything’, so to speak. When we are acting out of fullness (as opposed to acting out of deficiency) then this may be...
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We all know what the word ‘spontaneity’ means, but at the same time we don't really know. No one really knows, not even the most learned professor in the land! It's simply not possible to know this - if we...
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Regular events don't provide us with any information, of course. They can't do that because nothing new is happening - only unique events represent information. It's only information if it's never happened before. We could therefore say that the very...
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Eric Berne makes the argument that the reason we play games is to avoid unstructured time. ‘Games’ and ‘pastimes’ are how we get through that space that exists between 'waking up in the morning' and 'going back to sleep last...
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There's no point in trying to fix the Extrinsic Self when it gets broken. It is meant to get broken, we could say - it has no future but to be broken. The whole point is that it should be...
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