When were you last provoked? And I don’t mean physically, I mean mentally, intellectually.
I like provocative ideas. Tell me where to find them!
I am not talking about ideas I already disagree with – I can find these anywhere! [Although if you can show them to me in a coherent, clear and well-argued form, I may take another look.] There’s a good chance I’ll disagree with the provocative ideas once I’ve found them…but the benefit comes from knowing them.
Where are the new ideas, the revolutionary ideas? The ideas no one’s talking about? The ideas we all know about but take for granted? The elephants (it’s a big room) in the room? The personal theories on life, the universe and everything?
Is there a book? A person? A theory? A brog? A mentor?
Maybe you were provoked by some incisive, insighful, incisor – I mean comment from a person that cut through to the very core of your being. It’s possible, right?
I’m talking about the ideas that are so provocative, so foreign, so jarring that they drag me so far away from my mind’s home that I am blessed with some sweet, sweet perspective on my and my society's and my species' beliefs.
Sometimes I wonder what I’ll do with all these ideas, and then I remember – nothing.
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I best not introduce the topic without a recently encountered idea which I found provocative. It is, That children should have the same rights as adults.
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I've heard that 'new' ideas actually spring from 'old' or existing ideas, or more specifically, from some kind of synthesis of different existing ideas.
That is, it's up to you!
For example, you could always try some old classics like Karl Marx, Lenin & Trotsky, and then read the thoughts of (the late) Stan Zemanek. Who knows what might come out of that lot?!!
(posted by OMF)
There is only one place where ideas originate - the loins. Accept this, and you hold the key to anything you desire, which includes your wildest fancies. Don't accept this, and risk the confines of a chicken coop - old ideas bouncing around and refusing to remain stuck together, like cellotape coated in sand.
Read the thoughts of Stan Zemanek? What am I, a mindreader?
I for one.
The loins? Maybe you should read some Freud too (Sigmund that is).
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