What makes us celebrate a rare and minute percentage of counter-culturalists while we ruthlessly and zealously grind the hopes of most dreamers into the dust? Sure, we stand and clap for our iconoclasts, but hell, they’ve already made it. All the millions of others looking to take a really big chance we humor along because, well, isn’t the whole idea just so chancy? I mean, think of the risks! Are we simply programmed to reject radicals by dashing their dreams with a trite and pessimistic tone of total fruitlessness? And if so, do we do it in the defense of a broader status quo, or just to make ourselves feel safer?
Is it human nature to ostracize the unconventional?
We do this because we fear the person who has the idea will be successful and we (or I) won't be. So we tell them it's worthless or pointless or whatever we can to discourage someone from taking this kind of risk because, as a whole (not everyone, but the majority) we don't like to see other succeed. It's a selfish nature that we've had for a very long time. We also fear the unconventional, Im reading Chuck Palahniuk's "Haunted" and one of the chapters has rich people becoming poor to get a new high, it's like the phrases "Brown is the new black" in this case "homeless is the new rich" it's such an unconventional thought that the idea of it get's dismissed as crazy. Through tv and media we've been conditioned to judge what's logical and illogical without even putting it though our own personal thought process. This isn't everyone of course, it's just that the ones who are able to escape this are the ones we are ostracizing. Their kind of like the green party of the whole world, they just get scoffed at. It's a shame, dreaming is quite healthy I believe.
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