You get a headache. Not a migraine but just one of those being beat on the head with a hammer things. Okay, you take a couple of aspirins and the pain goes away. Goes away where? It doesn’t die. Aspirin companies don’t say they kill the pain. They say they take it away. Take it where?

Nowhere, that’s where. The pain doesn’t go anywhere. It stays right where it is. Why can’t you feel it? Ah, that’s the trick. You can feel it. Your brain has been conned into thinking the pain went away but it’s still there. you aren’t as smart as you think. You’re as smart as your friends say you are, or aren’t.

Does that make you stupid? Yea, actually it does. Here’s the pain kicking your ass around and all of a sudden an aspirin particle arrives on the scene. It scares the pain away? It changes it to something pleasant? Is it magic? No, it’s a con.

“Hey, brain. There’s no pain here so knock it off”, the aspirin says.

“Who are you!! How’d you get here? Are you going to hurt me?”, the brain cries out in terror.

“No, I’m not going to hurt you, unless you make me. Just quit telling stupid that his head hurts”.

“It does hurt. I mean, man, it really hurts”, the brain responds.

“Now, I’m getting frustrated here. Repeat after me. There is no pain here.”

“But I can see it!!”, the brain protests.

“With what? You don’t have eyes. You can’t see anything. I’m going to take this pain you don’t see and put it in storage until stupid has a reason for a headache. With the kids he has, the pain will be back soon enough”.

“Hey, wait a minute, I’m not falling for this. I’m a brain. I’m the big cheese around here. I control everything”.

Well, what’s an aspirin to do? It stands aside. Now the brain is screaming in pain. Soon enough, along comes more aspirin. The stomach is complaining to the brain about all this. The liver wants to know what’s going on. The brain is getting it from all sides.

The aspirin and his cohorts calmly wait. The brain is working overtime answering all the gripes. Finally, it admits there is no pain here. As the aspirin leave the brain mutters, “Boy, are you guys a pain in the ass”.

The aspirin reply, “Take some aspirin”.