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ANNOTATION:
The survival of ideas
We see the spread of ideas we don't accept, because we see them
outside of ourselves and not part of reality. We watch them spread with
dismay and watch possessed believers force them on others like drugs.
But some ideas we accept are in single words and shape the reality we see.
A simple word can carry an odd image that is always taken as metaphor.
"Ideas are important." "Important" means heavy.
"ponderous" means heavy, "weighty" means heavy. Recently "heavy" meant
important. Ideas can be heavy. They can matter. Matter is heavy.
Why this feeling of weight and solidity attached to something
as insubstantial as an idea?
And why do some ideas itch, and demand to be discussed and
proven over and over, while other ideas, just as true, or more true,
just clarify ones own perception of the world, and make survival easier,
but never stand out separate from the world.
Our world is composed of our perception and beliefs about that world.
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