relmuche's tale on books, vooks, hooks, looks, and lures

Our first creative and speculative thinking ancestors, were suposedly expelled from paradise, by an angel armed with a spade of fire, precisely because of their stubborness and eagerness of knowing, thinking, understanding, and explaining all and good.

Ever since that day, all us the fallen ones, have been getting better and better at doing just the same, and at making a hell out of our supposed heaven on Earth.

After the fall, and for a long while, power, knowledge, inspiration and wisdom were communicated rally from person to person and from generation to generation, and that, without a doubt made this world a nicer place for all who lived, enjoyed, rejoiced, suffered and died on the planet.

Life was probably simpler and there was not much need or use for qualified or self appointed trainers and instructors.

By then, fair competition and imitation were sufficient.

At the same time, the masters used their hook and captivation to transmit and reveal inspiration to their disciples, and the guides used their look and ascending to demonstrate and teach wisdom to their scouts.

One day, probably a merchant, invented symbols to represent, write and record numbers and fígures for accounting purposes.

Not long after, and this time probably a priest, invented symbols and letters to represent words or even whole ideas and started writing for recording and communication secret knowledge. The first ones that showed any interest and saw some use for this new technology, were probably the merchants. That was the origin of association between merchants and priests, a very powerful association that has survived the passing of time as the most successful known human association.

Another day, some other creative decided that encrypting and scrolling was out of fashion, and so decided to write, or better perhaps assemble, the first book. Since it was the first book ever, it had to contain illustrated stories, discourses and explanations, tales and inspired hooks, and wise sermons and looks.

Since the priest-hour labor cost has always been rather expensive, those finely crafted and illustrated first books never made it to the still nonexistent local book stores, never mind Amazon or Barns and Noble and gathered dust in palaces and now can be found in museums, half moth-eaten and completely fire and burglar protected.

Therefore, the common people that couldn't care less about reading and writing anyway, kept on the oral tradition, long after books were invented and in use.

However, another day a very smart guy invented the printing press and....well, the rest is another successful human industry that you can probably read about in history books.

The natural consequence of the massive adoption of the revolutionary new technology, is that nowadays, every thinking person seems to want to write at least one book or vook about any imaginable subject.

First class educators and even some live masters and guides seem to feel also obliged to write books, vooks or at least papers about their hooks and looks. Publish or die (meaning starve to death?), also applies to them?

The moral of this tale is that, if you ever need but can not find a trainer, instructor, master or guide, and, as the best alternative you decide to find a self help book or vook by yourself, be careful that it simply shows and explains how and when to do what you need to do, and also, but without any thought or explanation it transmits hooks and inspiration and demonstrate looks and wisdom from the author.

Any other book or vook, instead of helping you, may lure you away from yourself, at least for a while....