Thank you, The Killers, for providing my blog post title! "all these things that i've done"-- perfect. (i got soul, but i'm not a soldier!!)
I am sure that there always have been, and always will be, people who are "creatively on fire with a set of ideas no one had heard of before," as in Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I think it's a somewhat vital part of the human race. Granted, they're a little hard to find. I'm not saying that everyone needs to be this way; that might be a little chaotic. I kind of don't think that society or civilization or whatever can progress without these fiery people, history makers. They're hard to see, hard to accept, uncomfortable to listen to, and not always right. But sometimes they're very right, and to ignore them would be to miss that the earth is round, not flat, or that we go around the sun, not vice versa.
Standardized education seems to rule a lot of these people out. Several probably survive. I don't know how many people listen to these survivors, but i say next time we see someone with a sign that says, "prophet creatively on fire with original ideas," we sit down and listen to what they say. ;P who knows what we'll learn!
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