I sit here and try to do a lot of thinking, but really I end up just wishing for cliched things that I don't really want but popular culture has convinced me that I do. Or wanting to believe my life is like a movie plot, but really, it's just boring. (Sometimes I wish something bad would happen to me just to make my life a little less boring, make it have more meaning, but that is a whole 'nother rant.)
Is anything original anymore? It seems that everything has already been done. We come across an idea that we like, and then crop it and integrate it into our life and pass it off as our own. We're all thought thieves. Nothing's ours!
It's like America. Everyone here (even Native Americans) came from somewhere else. So where DID everyone come from? Where do thoughts come from?
Is there some giant thought base out there somewhere that started generating ideas? Maybe somehow our minds our connected to that. Or maybe, (more probably) our minds evolved conscious thought based on tangible things that inspire us.
I'm in love with thought. There's something so poetic about it. Yet none of it is mine. I get it from somewhere else, and then share it with people who don't know where I got it from so I appear smart. I think we all do this. That way you become associated with whatever it is you're sharing, for someone else to rip it off you.
I believe that's human nature, to steal. The mind is supposedly the one thing still your own that government and poverty can't take away from you, but I don't know...
Thoughts can be stolen, and without thoughts, what is a brain? Just a big, dark, empty room with no furnishings of any kind.
It's late. This is probably all crazy babbley-gook talk. But I raised a couple of good points I think. And I didn't get them from anywhere, my OWN brain generated them. (The thing is though, someone else has probably speculated this as well, so while it may be my idea, it is probably not a new idea. Someone reading this may have thought the same thing before, which is disheartening. So I go back to saying that everything that can be thought has already be thought. So what's the point? Well, actually, I don't like that question. There is a point. Oh yes. Thinking is good. Possibly one of the few good things humans have invented. So.)
Leave a comment with your thoughts. Maybe it would be better to say we thought-share instead of thought-steal. Yes?
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