Intellectual Natural Selection...how many great thoughts die? [View All]

[Protagoras]

Ever wonder that? We have an amazing space here at DU. But there are now literally millions of great spaces on the Internet. Every day there are thousands if not millions of great ideas expressed...every day.

And the vast majority of them are simply scrolled off the page in a few minutes or hours, to be quickly forgotten.

Each birthplace an echochamber...each survival dependent upon a bizarre array of conditions like the daily MSM misinfo, or the mood, or what happened on TDS last night, or what the DNC Chair said the week before...each altering the temperature of the room...each changing the terrain and, consequently allowing some ideas to thrive, not necessarily because they are better...but because they are more suited to that environment...they find a niche, and grow. At least until the next day when some new variable is added and poof, suddenly they disappear and a new birth batch takes its place, to fight it out among the throngs of competing ideas.

Thinking about it this way...I don't know if I feel happy that there are still so many amazing and diverse ideas being born each day...or if I'm sad because so many great potentialities never see the light of day, being lost in the latest echo chamber climate change.

These are the things I wonder about some days :D

Peace all,

Prot.