The Idea-smithy

My choices truncate my life to the popular.
Instinctively I flow with the crowd wherever, it goes
I rush to agree with whatever has the majority vote
Ignoring, denying, repressing anything that contradicts
Rejecting all that stands out
But my heart beats out of time from the common pulse
While I discard unconventional desires that find no place in the format
And [...]

Mediocrity loves itself but greatness is self-destructive.
Wonderful ideas fizzle out while staid, outdated conventions live on and on. Brilliant geniuses, artists, philosophers, scientists, thinkers are condemned or just throw themselves off the nearest cliff….but the average man celebrates 75 years of existence.
Is that the natural order of things? So that everything ‘medianizes’ after a while?