Saturday, April 20, 2013

Continued struggles

It seems that my eternal struggle is the fight for owning originality, disguised as a fight against remaining ignorant.

My worth is self-defined by independently thinking thoughts, though I have a near insatiable curiosity, I cannot know, too much or the same ideas would not be original.

Am I speaking Greek? No, this is English, though maybe not proper, let me try story telling.

There is this really great film coming out and by the trailers which you have been watching with expectant fervor, you cannot keep from peeping on youtube to see if another trailer has been created, but instead you find a screener copy has been leaked and reviewed. Now, is the real struggle. Do you watch what you really want to, so much that Google was able to determine it would interest you and has plastered the images, like a porno pop-up gone awry, everywhere. But, as you think about it, you think, but wait, I cannot undo knowing, I can only prolong my ignorance (avoid spoilers) so that I can excitedly enjoy the film when I see it.

There is no arguing that your ideas will,be yours wether formed now or later, but maintaining your ignorance is debatable.

I do not understand, in the case of the movie, why seeing now or later would increase the pleasure, but I do understand how if Timing is as important as it has,been portrayed, then the time to make my conclusions about what will happen in the plot would still remain, whereas if I watched the review, likely I would know what happens and not be able to form my own preconceived notions.

I get both frustrated and yet fight for timed ignorance in the name of originality.

2 comments:

  1. For instance, I figured out that Time was relative, and excitedly told my teachers how I came to figure it out, almost unanimously they told me that Einstein already thought that. well, so stinking what? It was original to me. And that was how I came to love "soft determinism". Sure God knew what we would do, but we don't. We still get to make the choice.

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  2. I didn't want to post anything new,but that I figured out why the things I say are so confusing,I has nothing to do ith my lack of skill in stringing words, because we do not understand things with the same thoughts used to present them which is why at times we get confused and see but do not see and why I prefer music without words. I prefer not giving the false appearance of intellectual thoughts, cause I am not a thought peddler. I speak more fluently in feelings.

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