Ideas are Alive and You are Dead

 We do not create or “have” ideas—if anything is doing the creating or having, it is the ideas themselves.

Our relation to ideas is an inextricable symbiosis, like that between plant and pollinator, a mutualism in which neither can survive without the other. At the dawn of civilization, a covenant was made between humans and these alien entities that live in our minds—honor and respect each other and all will flourish beyond their wildest dreams.

Create something, anything—write a line of poetry, doodle an image, hum a melody, take some objects near you and arrange them into a sculpture, do a dance move. Now destroy what you created, physically if you can, but also mentally. Forget it completely. The world is changed. You are changed. The idea will return in one form or another, in your min... See more

Ideas are alien life forms with an agency and intelligence independent of any mind or substrate which they inhabit.