I think I've become something of a novelty addict. New ideas, movements, whatever always interested me greatly. I feel like a novelty fiend waiting for his next hit.
It would be great if there wasn't such a shortage of new ideas in this society. We seem to have become so cynical to any new ideas that anyone with a new idea (conspiracy theory for instance) is labeled a nutter no matter how sound the evidence might be (not that I've seen many convincing conspiracy theories out there, but there have been a few).
On all the boards I hang out on the same old thing happens over again in a new form (sometimes not evenin a new form, mostly they just repeat themselves ad nauseum). Such a huge shortage of newer ideas that it's almost sickening.
Even ideas that I believe, Taoism and Discodianism, have been discussed by me and others so often that talking about it can no longer hold my interest (though I still believe it). My current hobbies, which are really more of obsessions, can only hold my interest for so much longer, as most of them do. I kind of have a bad habit of being interested in something and then getting bored with it and moving on abruptly.
It even shows in most other aspects of my life. I can't stand order in almost any sense of the word- school, organized religion, rules in general, none of it. I can't even stay in one place for too long, I would much prefer to travel around than staying in one city.
So now I have a dilemma. I need my next novelty fix but there's no one/thing to get it from. So, give me something novel. Something truly unique- an idea, a philosophy, a religion, anything- that I haven't heard a million times, and help out a poor movelty junkie.
It would be great if there wasn't such a shortage of new ideas in this society. We seem to have become so cynical to any new ideas that anyone with a new idea (conspiracy theory for instance) is labeled a nutter no matter how sound the evidence might be (not that I've seen many convincing conspiracy theories out there, but there have been a few).
On all the boards I hang out on the same old thing happens over again in a new form (sometimes not evenin a new form, mostly they just repeat themselves ad nauseum). Such a huge shortage of newer ideas that it's almost sickening.
Even ideas that I believe, Taoism and Discodianism, have been discussed by me and others so often that talking about it can no longer hold my interest (though I still believe it). My current hobbies, which are really more of obsessions, can only hold my interest for so much longer, as most of them do. I kind of have a bad habit of being interested in something and then getting bored with it and moving on abruptly.
It even shows in most other aspects of my life. I can't stand order in almost any sense of the word- school, organized religion, rules in general, none of it. I can't even stay in one place for too long, I would much prefer to travel around than staying in one city.
So now I have a dilemma. I need my next novelty fix but there's no one/thing to get it from. So, give me something novel. Something truly unique- an idea, a philosophy, a religion, anything- that I haven't heard a million times, and help out a poor movelty junkie.
