Mind takes credit

The mind loves to change the world. Just not itself. It wants to fix the politics, the web, the weather. It picks up ideologies and wears them like it invented them.

Nothing can be changed. Things happen, or they don't. A thought has no power to move a single atom. A process starts on its own. You jump in and tell yourself you are doing something. You are doing nothing.

Publish the best idea too early, and nobody looks up. The concept was never the cause. The timing was never yours.

Who actually wants their politicians, tax bills, chemicals in rivers, wars? Almost nobody. It happens anyway. Meanwhile, decent ideas sit unread forever. Not because they are wrong, but because the situation they belong to hasn't started.

The mind is not a creator. It is a commentator. It shows up after the fact, explains what it just watched, and takes the credit.

You are reading this and an opinion is forming. You don't actually have an opinion. What arrived was already on the disk, written long before this sentence. You didn't choose it. You found it there and called it yours.

Agreeing with any of this changes nothing. It is just one more file on the same disk.