Thoughts and ideas are pretty tough things - if we were to draw a ridiculous analogy we could say they are clearly tougher than any man-made material since we have thoughts and ideas which have outlasted man-made materials
While I believe that thoughts and ideas cannot be destroyed, they can become 'crushed'. By which I mean restricted form achieving a full and natural resolution. As far as I see it there are two main ways this happens:
One - internal crushing. By less or more degrees according to our own culture and predelictions we keep our thoughts to ourselves, we keep our own counsel and have unconnected thoughts which we feel we cannot share. And so every day millions of thoughts and ideas die in our own heads. Hardly any of them would have been totally original, but by the same token all of them would have been in some way unique. I'm personally very guilty of this.
Two - external crushing. Even when we express those thoughts, we will find that people and society will quickly if not immediately put them into some kind of context. It is rare that one thing said by one person at one time is ever really extrapolated or considered outside of its allocated context.
Now this crushing is for a very good reason. We can't try and apply every thought ever made to every situation - we need to filter down at some level. But somewhere in this daily crushing, compressing and splintering of thought and idea we must be losing some really true and profound thoughts . And I will use this blog to look around, pick some 'crushed thoughts' up and find out new uses for them - I promise I'll do my best to make it interesting along the way.
so there it is - uncrushed thoughts as a concept.
I fully realise this probably feels pretty sketchy but later on in the blog I'll try and expand on reasons why I believe that we need to find more and better ways to share sketchy concepts.
I'll end with some basic info on myself. I live in London and currently work for one of the world's largest arts centres, where I work on their new media platforms. Having moved from an engineering background into the world of the arts, I get a lot of left-brain, right-brain context that I hope will only add to what I'm trying to achieve with this blog.
