A Helpful Hint for Sleepers

A Helpful Hint For Sleepers From Your Mattress‑Packing Friends Here At New Intelligence:

If you try to awaken, and don't quite make it ‑‑ it can drive you crazy,

but if you never even try ‑‑ you'll be just fine. 

And local conditions said to the whole herd, "Go on, and roll over ‑‑ I can take you all on."  And by god it can!  If you continue to just lay there.

In the city, some people seem more important than others. They're not!

And that's why they want to seem to be.

(And consciousness had enough smarts not to ask thinking if it "got it," lest the question itself might jog the old darling into mucking about in fresh affairs into which it could bring nothing new and interesting.)

In a far away solar system, a priest and a mystic were talking, and the priest said: "It's just of late struck me that if everyone realized that everything other than eating and sleeping and screwing is just various forms of entertainment, we'd both be out of work."  And the mystic replied:  "Not only that, but we wouldn't be sitting here on this planet, able to talk about it."  And the priest both, "kinda‑got‑it," and kinda "didn't‑get‑it" ...'Bout like would be the case with most everyone else.

Definition time again:

History: Man's continuing attempt to justify what he presently is.

And just like everything else, singular to the life of man, it both,
"kinda‑works," and kinda doesn't.

Then over on a nearby world, one of their leading medical experts announced his conclusion that, "Most of the stress on this planet is caused by overly serious people."  And local conditions sent a shill to ask the doctor, "Don't you mean to say that stress in people may be caused by them being overly serious!?” And the researcher replied, "No, I said what I intended."  And the undercover agent muttered to him, "You better watch it!"

 J.