Ideas That Bounce Around
John Ink2Quill
www.ink2quill.com

Ideas can be such a wonderful thing. They can be the root of solving problems, a way for people to express themselves, and sometimes, just sometimes they can bring something that is completely new in the world. With the growth of the internet and those people we call “influencers” we can actually see ideas or opinions bounce around and change like that game of telephone we played as kids. It really is a strange thing to see an idea go from person to person, from source to source, from group to group, change and transform. Sometimes that one idea can splinter off into many. Sometimes that idea can completely change its form. What I mean to say is that ideas, or more precisely that movement of ideas often leads to a kind of evolution of that idea and the environment its in.

That is one of the reasons why rumors and slander are such dangerous and treacherous things. Ideas can be weapons just like they can be agents of change. Take the gossip and legal troubles of some of our celebrities. You have an allegation on someone that is started and travels through the ether from person to person, group to group by influencers who either ignore it or send it back out into the ether giving it their own spin and flavor so to speak. In this case, when it comes to rumors and slander the more shocking and horrific the faster it spreads, and the more damage it does. Because the shocking and horrific sell. I figured that if you took all the entertainment available today and removed all the shows that had guns which were used in murder or any kind of nefarious acts, murder and other horrific crimes then I’m sure at least 3/4 of shows would be gone. This says a lot about us as consumers.

I’m not talking about instituting a kind of censorship where all, or most shows have to be horror free because I ultimately believe the problem lay in ourselves. I don’t think censorship works just like I think social engineering is obvious. When you show a group of people in a bad situation over and over again most others will start to look down on that group of downtrodden people and even start to hate them. I’ve seen this in my travels and it’s sad. But think of the social engineering that goes on here today. It’s no less cruel. Things like racism (of any and all groups of people), sexism (of any and all groups of people) etc. still exist today.

Wouldn’t it be interesting if someone studied ideas and confirmed what we all suspected all along, that the movement, change and life of many ideas resembles that of a protein or a particle (choose one, any one)? I’m not saying that ideas and proteins are the same thing. I’m saying that anything that contributes to life in some way follows patterns, which are at times similar. And if enough of those ideas coalesce will the result of it be to achieve something that is more than the sum of its parts?

So, this rambling is a kind of homage to that thing that is lighter than air but that pushes human society forward with more force than the mightiest army. If the stars in the galaxy can take credit for the creation of the elements around us then maybe we can take credit for the spread of ideas and everything that follows from it. Let’s hear it for ideas.

John Ink2Quill

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