Samples of appeals to the EMOTIONAL GUIDANCE SYSTEM as piped in on television:

Dateline:  Kitchen in the real America. Recent high school graduate charges in to room.  Kid excitedly tells well-preserved seemingly adult parents: “Yea! I got accepted at Polytech!” Good news, you think, (like there’s a polytech and an Emerald City).  Now, what do you think the parents do as kid dashes out to make his big announcement to his friends?  Of course, the attractive Mom grasps super-attractive Dad’s hand and says, “Oh, honey, how will we afford to pay for this?”    Dad, apparently growing up under a rock, comes up with the PERFECT SOLUTION. Do you know what he says? I just know you do because it’s so logical.  It’s the first thing that popped into my mind.  He looks at proud, lovely Mom and decides to COLOR HIS HAIR SO HE CAN GET A BETTER JOB AND SONNY CAN GO TO POLYTECH.  Yep.

Now that’s bludgeoning of the THINKING GUIDANCE SYSTEM that actually makes me feel more in charge.  Which ought to scare the hoochy out of you. 

Here’s a test.  If you are a grown man with a grown son and it does not occur to you to get a good job and make more money UNTIL YOUR SON HAS THE POLYTECH BREAKTHROUGH– you probably won’t be able to buy into the the idea of learning to use your THINKING GUIDANCE SYSTEM. 

If you find yourself staring into the bathroom mirror watching the black rinse dribble down your neck after you learn that Sonny boy has flunked out of school   and you ask yourself, “What was I thinking?” The good news is NO THINKING WAS INVOLVED in the dye-your-hair-and-make-your-son a proud graduate of Harvard scheme.  And, thus, there’s so much room for improvement. It’s like failing a test where you didn’t study.  Just think how well you can do now that you’ll have the notes.  I’m not ahead of you on this little journey.

Learning to laugh at our humaness is an important step in dumping ANXIETY on its rear.  Ha Ha.  Guess what Anxiety Grip I know so well.  HaHa.  DON’T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF.

IT’S ALL SMALL STUFF.  Of course, this does not apply to those drivers I instructed earlier today on using their ##@ turn signals.  Yeah.  That was serious stuff.