Ideas that capture the popular imagination are not written on a blank slate. Every personality is a reservoir of instinct populated by a menagerie of habits, and the potential for differing world views is limited only by the imagination.
Historically speaking our survival has required that we look outward and shape the world to our outer needs. Science and industry are the natural extension of the outward press of natural life. The proliferation of ideas (the many answers to life's urgent questions) is the inevitable result of human cleverness. We live in a fog of cleverness, and humanity may well end up drown in a sea of mindless cleverness.
The central aspects of our existence are non-idealogical, and remarkably uncomplicated. The fact of being that we share with all living creatures has mass compared to which all ideas are fluff, yet by and large we unconsciously live in ideas and never engage the fact of being.
It has been said: "there is no insight....there is only out-sight". The out-sight that is insight happens when, for whatever reason, the the hold of the many on our consciousness slips; and we experience that moment of singularity which is the fact of existence. The ideas that come from this place result in a different kind of animal.
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