If I have an idea, which has reached a critical point, I have to test it - there is no self-consciousness, it’s like being pregnant in the sense that it’s gonna come whether you like it or not. There is no sense of duty or fairness either, just urgency. But just as much as inspiration hits me suddenly, it doesn’t hit me reliably and often not at the right time. I will often be at work or away from a personal computer and the urgency has died out before I get the chance to write it down. You get what you’re given when you get it, sorry.
In theory. I don’t think leaders like to be led unless they are sure they’ve already gained respect and are interested in leading someone else into a leadership role in order to enhance their own leadership.
But none of this is really relevant unless you feel under-appreciated and are resentful that people aren’t following you, and you long to be a leader but in vain. Natural leadership just happens - you don’t plan who to lead and how, lions or otherwise, but you might be likened to a lion by others if you emerge a leader. Doesn’t matter if you aren’t likened to one though.
I guess, although I think it’s more to do with numbers, and the availability of shallow content that seems deep to the shallow. It’s the same as saying there’s no good music anymore, because it’s so drowned out by the hordes of loudest easy-option takers. Everything loses it’s specialness when it’s opened up to the masses. It’s like a philosophy class, in my experience - there’s always at least that one guy who has incessant inane questions and comments to offer, and too much of the class is taken up addressing him instead of moving onto something interesting and potentially outside the box.
This is a very under-appreciated truth, one side of a political debate will rail on the other as though they were absolutely wrong and themselves absolutely right, when really it’s mostly all been pre-determined by biology and they’re both perfectly valid in expressing their values. This is why I support free speech - silencing one group invalidates a whole avenue of valid ingenuity that too often benefits everyone in ways completely underestimated by the other side.
It’s been my displeasure to be dismissed by a once reasonably respected contributor to this forum, FC, on the grounds that I don’t find it sufficient to derive knowledge from second-hand sources and as such I don’t place a huge amount of value on reading up on the works of others - though of course I open my ears and listen out for interesting inspiration when I can. My approach is far moreover to attempt to derive it myself from as fundamental principles as I can identify - to make conclusions my own and as solid as I can from start to finish. His parrot, UrGod, tried his hardest to discredit some such conclusions in another thread, and only shut up once I found some quotes for him from another source.
I am reminded of a quote, not that the fact that it’s a quote legitimises it at all but I think there’s something to it, by Eleanor Roosevelt: “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people”. I am with you when it comes to being against the “He said it” approach to “philosophy”, and also the “feeling of being right” and the plagiarised re-iteration of the ideas of others like you see on youtube.
What was/were your name(s) in previous rodeos btw?
Serendipper, have you had (a) previous account(s)?