But the chances of my having heard 'everything that's been said' is miniscule. It's miniscule-osity is in direct proportion to the sheer size of rock I have chosen to consciously live under.
But live consciously I do.
So when I'm blethering away with someone and a crazy new thought or concept or mini-minor-moment-of-truth pops to mind, I share it - unsensored - with whom I'm with. But what I, all too often, hear in those fleeting chuffed moments are things like, 'that was a Seinfeld episode'.
The thing is.....ok ok, THAT is a Seinfeld line right there, just seeing if you were listening. TV reception is pretty poor under large rocks.
But there is pride in re-inventing the wheel. So take pride in coming to that joke or conclusion. Because you did it yourself. Were someone to roll back the clock, you'd have been the first to come to such a conclusion. But this isn't a race to the widsom finish line. It's a marathon over generations upon generations of humans being.
However, there is a notable decline of participants with each generation.
What one discovers when they aren't being broadcast to with regularity, and scheduled programs is....you actually come to think quite creatively, and deeply for yourself.You don't need to sit and watch someone, or something else be entertaining. It's actually in YOU, that is, if you can unplug a while and let your mind think for itself for an undistracted minute.
It won't feel natural at first because, of course, natural isn't commercially profitable enough for it to be encouraged. Let your mind wander off and explore it's own corners and deep crevasses - you won't lose or misplace it.
(fear those who say that to you - it means they have ; )
For all the rules, regulation and restrictions of freedom we are barely conscious of, yet experience in our everyday life, our imagination is our last vestage of freedom we have.
Henry David Thoreau was ahead of his time when he penned his internally arrived at observation which he made the late 1800's when he said; " "modern improvements" have an illusion about them, there is not always positive advance. Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end" ....he goes on to mention the construction of a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas...
He concludes with...."it may be, [we'll] have nothing important to communicate"
Where are the philosophers and prophets among us today?
It's not a coincedence with all the communication tools and equipment cluttering up the world and the airwaves (killing all the delicate botanically, horticultural and agriculturally trained bees!), we should have the least amount of wisdom to impart.
To hear anyone say 'everything's been said before' is evidence to my mind, we're living in dark times.
We're losing our active creativity through our passivity of in take.
We're relinquishing our ingenuity...our own genius. As is everyone else.
So when [not if] the mountain snow source melts, natures springs will run damned dry...not only will it be too late to turn our thoughts toward not-dying-of-thirst...we will also be out of practise of thinking.
It is my hope more and more will get bored from the flotsam and jetsam and become more conscious, become more active, rock-the-boat before salt water levels rise and fresh water disappears altogether, not forgetting we are all in this boat together - and I do mean all - only then might we change the trajectory we are currently on.
It is my hope this might remind someone to think differently. To be wise...not otherwise.
Perhaps we are encountering fewer new and nourishing thoughts and concepts, because there are fewer prophets, philosophers and poets among us. Less philosophy students, and more philosophers please....with a side order of fries for take-out have have back at my rock.
Allow me to say to all you thinkers out there doing your individual thing - good on YOU !
Do not believe for one unplugged minute everything has been said or thought before, that's a sign of we need to up our creative-ante. It takes a lot of energy to stem tides.
Think of the pride, inventing the equivellant of the wheel would bring!
Somewhere a lone voice sighs under a large rock in another land 'you can say that again'
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