What is the Secret to Innovation?
Bureaucracy: that which most of USA’s conservatives hated the most (apparently, until a black guy became president), is mostly associated with its notorious “Red Tape”- the systematic inefficiencies that make it both slow and incompetent (like something along the lines of drunken sex), happen to be the bane of citizens and governments in most parts of the world.
To the human body and mind, a lot of external phenomena seem to have internal analogues. For example, cells work together like humans in a society do (with their own share of douchebags causing cancer or auto-immune deficiencies, much like the The “God-Emperor” or the often blue-collared (or even unemployed) social-security-bashing proud boys, respectively). The body works much like a big government, it appears. Delegation of tasks (between different parts of the brain), plenty of centralization (Central Nervous System) and typically, extreme bouts of laziness resulting in the making of stupid choices that necessitate regret for eons to come (anti-mask people), seem like typical day to day functions. No wonder the mind and the body require much maintenance to keep functioning well, sort of like laying off incompetent workers in a bureaucracy to keep the others in line.
Learning to think is very different from learning how to think, subtle as the difference might seem. Sort of like when caught with the neighbor’s wife, how you run away is not so important, as long as you run away successfully. Of course, running away with your clothes on would be preferable but only so long as you are getting away without incident because it really doesn’t matter if you have a suit on when the neighbor ultimately catches up with you just as you are climbing out his window, and demands a devil’s three-way.
So, when an underlying goal is not achievable without thought, it is the thought that ultimately counts. Sure, the mechanism behind the thinking could result in shitty thoughts versus noble ones, but without an end, the means to that end wouldn’t even matter. Thus, learning how to think seems like typical bureaucratic red tape, a bit unnecessary and ultimately, a highly risk averse method of living: boring and fail proof. Such dogmatic, set in stone methods of thinking stamp out opportunities for spontaneousness, creativity and innovation. It probably is time to just let go, and begin to think.
