I’m starting to think that disinhibited thought, inappropriate emotions, and other divergent mental traits, are the psychological equivalent of survival of the fittest.
I have a very strong moral compass so disinhibited thoughts (why am I thinking this) and inappropriate emotions (why do I feel like this) would cause me no end of strife. A lifetime of self-criticism.
But what if this is divergent thinking at play? The casting of the net?
It seems obvious that all creative pursuits would require some level of disinhibited thought. Otherwise your tree would look the same as my tree. This is why some substances can free you up by taking off the brakes.
But what about society? Would people have ever … abolished slavery if someone hadn’t had the inappropriate emotion of ‘this is wrong’ and the disinhibited thought of ‘I’m going to do something about it’.
So all blades have two sides. Apart from one ones I make they only have one, but… All coins have two sides. They cut both ways and there’s three stones in the bush.
But if it wasn’t for this absolutely bastardly disinhibited thought, would civilisation have been created in the first place?
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