Something Someone Else Thought Of
In this world, there is frequently little that is original. Even our sophisticated gadgets are only rearrangements of tech and systems what were previously thought of.
The majority of thoughts in our head are ones that were gifted to us, given to us, or explicitly laid out for us. Occasionally we arrange them in novel ways, but this is rare. We stand on the shoulders of those who came before us to see what we can see. All all our basic services are things others derived and figured out as well. The toilet to evacuate our waste, the piping to bring cold water to quench our thirst, the foods harvested for our table, the carpentry for our roofs, the mechanics and technology for our modern systems.
Yet somehow we are blinded with our own importance, our individualism, as if we could go it alone and our own thoughts are the most integral. We've only arrived at our privileged places through collective actions, yet our discourse is full of immaturity, complaints, and discontent. Our local points of view so exalted and urgent that we even threaten war on those who diverge from or contest our own subjective smattering of thoughts and views.
We stand here as children, barely able to walk and to think. Time to appreciate everything everyone else already thought of, not for our own betterment, but the betterment of all.
An individual can be free and create new realities when in contact with the well-spring of deep base consciousness. I think many people believe what they have been told, that they cannot, maybe even should not, do so and hence fail to recognise when it happens to them spontaneously.
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I like this topic. It reminds me the story "Ruinas Circulares", in which a man manages to create another man through his dream, to finally realize that he is also the creation of another who dreamed him. We are the projection of others, that's right. But my dilemma is: being a product of evolution, in which we will finally evolve when humans no longer exist ?.
Sounds like a good story.
Yes, everything changes, the future is impossible to predict, at best we can just try to fix the obvious deficiencies we see currently.
This post actually reminds me of an article I read long ago. It reflects on the human capacity to share ideas and to imitate others to learn how to do what they do.
Here is what Thomas Jefferson has to say about ideas (the article is about patents, but that is beside the point here):
That part about how ideas spread like fire is inspiring. That is what your article evokes.
wow, very cool... thanks for sharing , Thomas Jefferson, one of the all-time brains!
This is true in all ambits of creative work. For example it is said that every artist is inspired by others in some capacity, that there are few basic stories to be told and every writer pull from them.
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So true. We are standing on the shoulders of those who have come before us and we have to be vigilant that the knowledge doesn't get destroyed and forgotten.
Great post!
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