The addiction of cognition is a slippery slope,
hard to catch an edge.
What do you use for bait
so that you can witness yourself in action
while you observe what and how that all works.
Cognition is a quick draw technique
that is as fast a humanly possible.
You are encouraged, well, trained your entire life,
demanded to get from cognition to recognition
or pay the price of known to have a lesser intelligence
than the norm.
It is a Machiavellian principle of lock step awareness
that is taught and promoted by our educational systems
to determine a set of justifiable results
about a person’s general intelligence and then some.
Quick minds are promoted and stage
while slower minds acquiesce to audience along the way.
If life was only flash cards and demonstration!
Eventually retentive mind becomes a strong ally
in the process, storing a vast amount
of retrievable items, images, and words
that verbally assist in the recall war of experience.
It has been discovered that massive retention
does not really guarantee higher intelligence
in the sense of problem solving in general.
Outside the box thinking is not a direct development
of this type of brainwork.
The addiction of cognition is an attention grabber
and this, as a mental grazing style,
leads to consumerism on a vast scale.
If we all only lived to be shoppers!
It is hard to set aside think results
and go where no one has gone before.
Hard to think beyond the quick reflex.
To think up something new,
different, odd, out of frame.
Basically it is seen as a first response
that is unacceptable
by conclusion, compared to all else.
The addiction to cognition is so popularized
that it goes without challenge
into the night of next moments and their outcome.
An addiction, you ask?
Yes, spend a few moments in an experiment
of existing without cognition.
It will be as hard as going forward without breathing.
Who would you be and where within you
would you go to exist for say five minutes,
no, just one minute,
without the whisper addiction of cognition
running the show . . . ?
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