Beelzebubs-Tales-to-His-Grandson-by-G-I-Gurdjieff

sponding only to the sum of these false and fantastic ideas, and second, thewhole presence of each of them gradually becomes accustomed to perceivingall new impressions without the least participation of the being-factors thatNature puts into beings for new perceptions—in other words, to perceivingnew impressions only according to the false and fantastic notions that havepreviously been inculcated in them."The contemporary three-brained beings there ultimately lose even thevery need for grasping in its entirety everything they see or hear for the firsttime, so that what is newly seen and newly heard merely serves as a shock,arousing associations based on information previously implanted in them andcorresponding to these new impressions."Thus, when these favorites of yours become responsible beings,everything they see or hear for the first time is perceived automaticallywithout any effort whatsoever on the part of their essence-functions, andwithout evoking in them, as I have already said, the slightest being-need tosense and understand whatever is going on inside or outside of them."In a word, they are satisfied merely with what someone else at one timeor another, consciously or unconsciously, has put into them."I hope, my dear boy, that after all I have just told you, it will become clear toyou why, among the three-brained beings of the other groups on your planet,data for an opinion so uncorresponding to reality have been crystallized regardingthe beings of that separate community known as 'France.'"Be that as it may, it is a great misfortune for the ordinary beings of Francethat the contemporary three-brained beings of other groups have selected thecapital of this community for their so-called 'cultural manifestations.'