"No Matter, Never Mind"

"What is the matter with those crazy people?"
"It's the same old bit about matter, madam."
"What does that mean?"
"Well, people think that they exist as matter and need matter such as food to sustain that matter."
"But they don't grow any food to feed their matter; we do that for them -- and the world."
"And thy don't make cloth to clothe that matter that they think they're made of.  They can't conceive of doing that for themselves.  They haven't learned that all is mind, that everything that exists is only in the mind."

"Then you're saying that all this street violence only exists in the mind?"
"They're a one-track mind.  They see skyscrapers, homes, businesses only as relative to them."
"But they don't produce lumber, cement, iron, and steel to construct things of matter.  We do that."
"And, of course, none of that could come about without a mind . . ."
"Where is the mind?  Can you see it?  Is it not housed in matter?"
"As I said, they're a one-track mind.  For centuries they've been bringing to our mind this hypocritical business  that everyone is against them, that police are against them and arrest them and kill them and they're poor innocent law abiding people who never do anything wrong.  They've refined it, calling it civil rights and Justice or no Justice and other names, making it a hustle.  And this mind didn't suddenly appear fully formed.  It existed in primitive forms, growing into excellence and power in some places, now called strong cultures, and lagging as tag-along-subcultural minds in other places."

"As you explain it, these tag-along-subcultural minds remind me of children making a ruckus over some matter that doesn't interest anybody but them as a hustle, and being told, 'Now you young'uns just shut up or we'll send you to bed without any supper.' "
"Well, whether you believe there's only mind or matter and mind, just remember the famous British philosopher who supposedly said, 'No matter, never mind.' "