Nothing is quite as
useless as having a universal TV remote without having the accompanying instructions
on how to individualize the remote to one’s particular device. This was the situation today when I went by
Kunte’s house to help set up his remote for use with his used TV purchased today
at a pawn shop. His remote had been used
with his previous TV, but now the remote’s manual was lost making the remote
useless. Is this predicament not pretty
much the case with our own bodies? We
are born with many more circuits than a TV remote. Yet, it is largely a mystery how we are to
apply ourselves optimally to fully cope with life. There are many codes, and most remain unknown. In plain fact, no one really knows enough to
write a definitive instruction manual.
Perhaps in time, such a manual will be developed. In the meantime if we should Google for the human
instruction manual, we can take our pick from a large array of approaches to
fill this need—everything from scientific, to philosophic, to religious
attempts to help us successfully meet the challenges of life. Perhaps no one approach will ever
suffice. For man is more than circuits,
he is analogue and digital—he not only images, but ascribes to those images
meaning and symbolic significance.
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