My OperaThoughts Think People
Thursday, September 7, 2006 2:29:24 PM
To say "Thoughts Think People" means humans live in a collective mind. Great new ideas and inventions are rarely concieved by one genius but rather are pondered by many receptive thinkers. It is as if thoughts are seeded and find fertile minds to germinate and flourish. Einstein described the innovator and new ideas; first you and the idea are ridiculed or called insane, then you are violently opposed and finally the world tells you, "we knew it anyway". Both marketing research and cultural studies indicate that new ideas seem to pass through four key stages of development characterized by the eagle, hawk, crow and sparrow.
A few bright thinkers, whom I call eagles, recieve or get a new idea almost simaltaneously and are branded as crazy or eccentric and sometimes called genius. Eagles work seperately refining and evolving the idea in this early stage. Eventually a few who develop the new idea have better execution or perhaps funding than others and get credit for the innovation and their names become identified with the idea by historians; although many other unknown pioneers also worked to build it. In the second recogonition stage other people whom I term hawks become involved. They are also advanced thinkers, trend setters and they recogonize the value of the new idea. Hawks promote, support, fund, reproduce and try the new idea. Their activity helps the idea move into the main stream or third stage, where the crows becomes invovled. Crows disseminate the idea far and wide and work to integrate it into the daily cultural milieu to accpetance and use by the sparrows. In the third stage the idea is fashionable; it's mass produced and people accept the idea, even clamor to get the new thing and say things like, "Everyone knows that" or "I knew about it all before anyone else". In the fourth stage the sparrows have totally accepeted the idea wherupon it becomes rigid, highly formalized and perhaps entrenched, dogmatic or protected from changing. In this last stage the idea is very different from its original, idealized and insiprred conception. By the fourth stage many minds have interacted with the idea such that each interaction alters it slightly.
Chances are if you have a 'great new idea' twenty other people across the world are musing or pondering a similar notion. Even this rather novel (new) assertion that Thought think people here is being, researched, discussed, promulgated by minds far more adroit than mine.
A few bright thinkers, whom I call eagles, recieve or get a new idea almost simaltaneously and are branded as crazy or eccentric and sometimes called genius. Eagles work seperately refining and evolving the idea in this early stage. Eventually a few who develop the new idea have better execution or perhaps funding than others and get credit for the innovation and their names become identified with the idea by historians; although many other unknown pioneers also worked to build it. In the second recogonition stage other people whom I term hawks become involved. They are also advanced thinkers, trend setters and they recogonize the value of the new idea. Hawks promote, support, fund, reproduce and try the new idea. Their activity helps the idea move into the main stream or third stage, where the crows becomes invovled. Crows disseminate the idea far and wide and work to integrate it into the daily cultural milieu to accpetance and use by the sparrows. In the third stage the idea is fashionable; it's mass produced and people accept the idea, even clamor to get the new thing and say things like, "Everyone knows that" or "I knew about it all before anyone else". In the fourth stage the sparrows have totally accepeted the idea wherupon it becomes rigid, highly formalized and perhaps entrenched, dogmatic or protected from changing. In this last stage the idea is very different from its original, idealized and insiprred conception. By the fourth stage many minds have interacted with the idea such that each interaction alters it slightly.
Chances are if you have a 'great new idea' twenty other people across the world are musing or pondering a similar notion. Even this rather novel (new) assertion that Thought think people here is being, researched, discussed, promulgated by minds far more adroit than mine.
