The Perfect Humanoid Symbol, 8
If you research rates of smoking, you find an inverse correlation between the social conditions, both material such as wealth and opportunities and non−material such as culture and the human qualities it fosters: the lower the social conditions, the highest the rates of smoking. That the less one can afford an addiction the more one is likely to be addicted is a well−known paradox. And this inverse correlation spans across both space and time: while industrialised nations, led by their highest cultural levels, break the spell, the developing world falls for that same spell; so much so that the World Health Organization has begun a Tobacco Free Initiative in order to reduce rates of consumptions in the developing world specifically. The very same scam starts to look worn−out in the presence of the human qualities fostered by culture and claims new victims in their absence; this shows how that between the highest human qualities and the manipulations of Bernays and his partners in crime and disciples is a head−on clash. Lucidity, consciousness, presence of mind and “winning” or “losing” personality are incompatible; after all, they cannot occupy the selfsame space: self.
By impatience I mean all those humanoid faults preventing one from having the full data base needed for sound evaluations and decisions. And this is not limited to youngsters’ impatience of adults, that leads them out of the frying pan into the fire: it is true that previous generations act as potential trouble sources by relaying against next ones all the suppression they received and identified themselves with, but they are also the depositaries of the scope of work already done, of the state−of−the−art whose ignorance leads the next generations to waste their precious energy in reinventing the wheel instead of using it to move further ahead out of the mud; moreover, the temporal dimension is fundamental in a data base to isolate similarities and differences, detect common denominators as well as their disguised instances, and in order to get somewhere one never knows enough, as demonstrated by the average calculus whose accuracy improves as the number of samples increases. What I call here impatience is a far more widespread scourge then merely among the youngsters, as previously described. And it opens the door to the ensuing scourges – and keeps it wide open, too. A bespoke door for the addiction mechanism, based on poor – false, biased, insufficient – information.
