A new perspective on what turns your crank

 MACHINE HEAD==IT’S MORE THAN A ROCK SONG

The previous entry featured “typing—that is our tendency to understand  a lot of the world by putting supposedly square pegs and people into square holes (have you ever seen a cubicle?).  Of course, we like to hang out with some folks who understand us and it is pretty reasonable to connect with folks who have similar values because you don’t want to spend your life arguing for very little reason….and if you do become a US Senator or a slave to social media sites…. Anyway that entry was about “types” and the primary drawback is that a person has a lot of traits or characteristics  so shoving them into a limited box means their experiences are bound to leak  out of the box (and you don’t want leaking outside the box when you are supposed to be thinking there.   

Well this post says here’s a different way. Of loooking at human and the things they do.  Oh and it is pretty popular these days too. Let’s go there now.

So… if your car breaks down or your toilet  overflows you can be in deep sh** in a hurry and these things get fixed because the person who knows how to do that  understands that  object to be fixed is a “machine”. Since it’s a machine you can figure out each part and what it does and then replace or change—somehow manipulate  one variable and make the result you want happen.  Lest we don’t believe this happens with people …some experiences can be offered here.  In recent years “politicians” have done their best to manipulate fear so that they could get people to exhibit  specific behaviors in voting, in health care, in the treatment of their fellow human beings.  Psychology  has turned to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques  to direct folks. To manipulate the original meanings they assign to experiences so that  it changes the action outcome.  This is the same as depositing a new gear into the thought/emotion emotion machine.  One might think of meditation as stopping the machine altogether for long enough  to smell the flowers that are getting choked out by the exhaust  spewed forth  by the money machine.  

The point here is that  there is a lot of “If I can get people to do A and b they will do C because that’s how the human machine works.  

So in seeking race and joy sometimes folks just keep changing one  part of their life to see if peace and joy or financial riches or security  becomes the outcome… Now does seeking probably. Require. Change and experimenting?  Probably… yet maybe the flags come up when we assume  causation vs. correlation becaus e that gives us control over the machine.  We want to push the handle and hear the flushing sound.  We want to put a handful of quarters. In and see the laundry tumble… Does it work that way for everyone in all situations…. Hmmmm?  

All we are asking here is …. Can we take a second to pull our internal thoughts  and build some different life experience meanings…. Maybe life isn’t a grandfather clock so much as it is human (sp) Chenga?

So here’s where we stand at the end of this post…. 

You can think of people as “types” and you can think. Of us as robots… Doing so has some utility… yet one might  ask “aren’t there other ways of looking at the world/“. Well of course… and the next post will sure  shine some light on that, water that,  and see what happens….