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

not only of the continuous 'dwindling,' at an accelerating tempo, of the psycheof all the three-brained beings breeding on that unfortunate planet of yours,but also of the complete destruction of that unique being-function, proper toall three-brained beings, which until the last century still arose in theirpresence spontaneously, and is everywhere called the 'sane instinct to sensethe truth at the heart of reality. '"In the place of this function, indispensable for every three-brained being,there has gradually been crystallized another special function, whose actioninduces in them a constant doubt about everything."This pernicious invention of theirs they call 'advertising. '"So that you may understand what follows, I must tell you that severalyears before my trip to America, during my travels on the continent ofEurope, I once bought some books to while away the long hours of a tediousrailway Journey In one of these books, by a very famous writer, I read achapter about America in which a great deal was said about what are calledthe 'slaughterhouses' in that same city of Chicago.'Slaughterhouse' is the name for a special place where terrestrial threebrainedbeings carry on the destruction of the existence of beings of variousother forms, whose planetary bodies they are addicted to consuming for theirfirst being-food, again owing to those abnormally established conditions ofordinary being-existence."Moreover, when they carry out this manifestation of theirs in thesespecial establishments, they say and even imagine that they are doing it from'necessity' and in what they call a perfectly 'humane' way."This famous contemporary writer gave a rapturous 'eyewitness' accountof one of the slaughterhouses of this same city of Chicago, in his opinionsuperlatively well organized."He praised the perfection of its machines of all possible