Good idea / bad idea
Recently I discovered that I believed in an odd proposition. I believe there are as many bad ideas in the world as there are good ideas. A manichaean turn of thought. Restating this brings out implications lying within. There is an even division of good ideas and bad ideas. For every good idea that comes to you, so will a bad one. There is an even distribution as well. The universe is not lumpy with ideas, a pocket of good ones here, obtainable one after another. Bad ones in another well-marked pocket safely way over yonder. We encounter both with the same frequency. This is the way it is: in us, in this world, even on the internet. Certain people, I'll allow, are filters of ideas creating dark storms or protected harbors around themselves respectively.
Some, maybe many may not believe this. There is the prevalent concept of the neat or cool idea. An indeterminate close relative of mine, like a nephew say but let's avoid unnecessary particularity, is of the age where these ideas are the best. Ideas like toy mods. Making good toys even better. For instance modding Nerf guns. The sort of improvements that
Humans vs. Zombies players make to them to have them fire further and harder. Modding nerf bolts, so they can become something far more adventurous, as seen on tv or read about in adventure books. All these things are realized by the leading educational institution of our time. Tube-sock(et) University (101, 102) we'll call it, to avoid unnecessary litigation. Neat ideas by their very nature; the daring, original, and powerful aspects of them, make captive imagination. These ideas are the hardest and trickiest to judge, and must be weighed the most carefully of all. Some would imagine they believe something of this sort: that ideas are like wheat. Rather that consideration of ideas is like threshing. A simple matter of separating grain from chaff. The only bad ideas, the conceptual dross of the affair, are those ideas that nothing can be done with. Inedible, unsubstantial. Dismissed with the wind. This notion itself, that it is the efficacy of ideas that is their measure, should not be considered above the fray. Clever ideas or dumb ones, acid or base, contrary to what might be believed there are no neutral ideas. Ones neither good nor bad, that could be harnessed to fine purpose whatever their cast. All idea's as they come into being, manifestations of crystalizing thought, need to rigorously examined for their potential and long term effects. Perhaps no bad idea is completely without merit, nor good idea unalloyed. The key question may be whether the life they will take on is controllable with what resources native and material you have at hand. However, in the fullness of time no good end will come out of a bad idea beginning. Everything is all fun n' games til somebody gets their eye put out.
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