Soundbyte Psychology

While working at a certain fruity company, I remember the effect it had on me when I saw an entire cluster of plants literally killing themselves to reach the little amount of sunlight that reached them during the winter day. They stretched so far towards the light that they were uprooting themselves. One had already lost too much rooting and fallen. Some of the plants were reaching over other ones and likely blocked out light to those, but they were killing themselves over this limited resource of light. Then, looking out onto the field, I saw a single tree out in the light. It had grown into an almost perfect half-circle, completely balanced. It had non-finite resources and no competition. It was whole.

The body is a system, just as a corporation or classroom is a system. Integrity is the body of a system itself: the whole. It is strength, unity and form. Loss of integrity anywhere at all in the body is like a fracture, and in moments the entire body can shatter like glass. Some systems are stronger than others. Some shatter instantly with even a single fracture. A fracture becomes a wedge, the loss in strength from that part of the body causes other parts to work harder. This added work leads to stresses in the system. If the fracture is not healed, then the chances of the system failing only increase. With a human, there is integrity of the body and of the mind. With the body, we know integrity as health. With the mind, we know it by our consciousness. There is also social integrity. Social integrity we form with our word. We either do what we say or we don’t. Anywhere there is system failure risks failure in all systems a person is connected to.

This entry, as it relates to both sexes, pertains to a little under 80-percent of the population. The exceptions help form the proofs to these two rules of thumb: what guys desire most from girls is sex, what girls want most from guys is a relationship. Even in homosexual relationships, you will find the same tendencies in the dominant half and in the submissive. There are of course other priorities, but these are the list-toppers for each sex. The conundrum raised by this state of affairs is that, for a male, ‘any woman will do’ when it comes to sex. Seeking out and fulfilling the top priority for the male persona is easy. A quality relationship, however, is more difficult to come by. This creates an environment where the female persona is more competitive and territorial, as the resource that is their top priority is limited, whereas the male half can pick and choose hour-by-hour if need be. The competitive nature only escalates over time, increasing the amount of attractive females and reducing any need to hold on to any singular female when the population of those that can provide quality sex are increasing. This latter effect, to only add a greater spin to the cycle, causes more and more males to remove themselves from acts of committal and communication that would mark them as potential quality relationships. This is the current state of affairs that is escalating in leaps and bounds.

Nocturnalism is classified as a disease. I first stopped sleeping at night in 4th grade. By my junior year in high school, it was a way of life. I love it. It is clarity. There is less of everything. The amplified reduction boosts productivity in everything. You can even cross a street more easily. Less mail, less distractions, less, less, less. I have enough projects and creative energy to last me for thousands of years. Productivity and effectiveness are two things I harvest and make use of. These drop like a rock whenever I’m required to operate in daylight, especially the early morning light. At night, some of the chemistry used in creating dreams is still triggered, adding all the more to my imagination. There is nothing else like it. Luna is my liege.

A camera flash blinds you. Your ears ring after a loud bang. You know what saturation is. If you think you have it bad, machines have it worse. Our real risk is in a sensory-overload of knowledge. Data, in the past, was lost due to wars and IT-shifts. It was the natural selection of information. Now, data survives. We have the good, bad and ugly of information at our fingertips. Question 1: how do you find objective answers? Question 2: are you sure you are finding the actual answer and not just the answer you want to find?