Decorative Thinking Meets the Innate

All thought is the use of imagination. Even inspiration must use the field of imagination for its exercise, and much of what passes as inspiration is mere decorative thinking.

An extremely valuable venue of thought is to question the innate. Almost all of civilization's accouterments are decorations on the foundation of what is innate in the human animal. And this to the degree that the innate is buried under an avalanche of inspired products of the imagination. An excellent example of this is the automobile. Probably brought to perfection in the mid twentieth century, what is innate in the automobile has become larded with culturally inspired imaginings. What is innate in the automobile is taken for granted and is all but invisible under its weight of accouterments. Just so with civilization in general, as the accouterments come to dominate the innate the innate becomes increasingly encumbered and inaccessible, while at the same time omnipresent.

So I suggest that a valuable use of the imagination is to question the relationship of the innate to the decorative in humanity, in culture, and in ones Self.