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[ More on the equation I + Not-I = Everything. The Not-I is not just outside the skin; there is the not-I internally among the 'we'. `I' is always the one speaking or in power who is acceptable, right. The not-I are all the unacceptable 'me-s'. The equation might be written: A (active/powerful) + P (passive/ potential) = Everything. (Aside: 'reformed' people are loved and sought after, for they are the apparent proof that positive change is possible) All humans have a "we" and talk to themselves, otherwise it would be impossible and one would be a true candidate for the asylum. One of the 'we-s' is always more active and addresses the passive me-s. But which side speaks for habit? Where is the other half of the act --the defense of the criticized behavior (habit); it is always grasping for E, will not face the criticism. That is why nothing every can change; there is this constant power shift (hopping from one binary foot to the other), with no forward progress. A pattern is set up which is your life --not 'events' that happen to you. Being of the City is having an inborn attitude. The three possible attitudes: Resignation, Resentment and Rapport (collaborative, accommodative, opportunistic, i.e., the 'successful' players at life, the rich and famous). No one can free themselves from ordinary moods if they live only inside the three attitudes/feelings about such moods. Your feelings toward the way you feel is what binds them to your mass-of-we. Feelings about moods is what can be changed, not the moods themselves. Connected to this is the need to be freed from the freedom of early experience (childhood). It is this freeing that is what becoming an 'adult' is all about. It is the final selection of a tyrant/spokesman among the chaos of 'we'; it is the need to adhere to discipline/limitation, dictation from one among the crowd of me-s. One example is young men joining the army to 'become men'. It is the coming of age to civilized sanity, stability and predictability. Such freedom is the doom of the not-I and the doom of the `I' as well for a Real Revolutionist; each defines the other; choice is introduced/allowed, or the appearance of same: ambiguity. ] tk notes 300