Juxtapose

As an interested party to my own inner workings as a human being, I have been reading up on different personality types in order to understand myself more; at least, myself from a standardized position that other people have taken in treating people like me. One of the core strengths of my standardized personality type is the ability to be creative through the manipulation of different objects; we are capable of seeing different combinations of factors and hence, appreciating the myriad possibilities a given object would have. The source of our creative power is this ability to take something; a situation, a feeling, an person, and shove them into a billion possibilities at once, into new places and see what happens.

A writing professor once told me that parodies and humor are created from this juxtaposition, this taking of something and putting it someplace else. Many things perhaps, are born from this as well. Fusion cuisine, new music genres, poetic styles, video games, so many things arise from the transportation of something where they have been to an area they've never been before. I would argue, therefore, that the source of innovation in  a philosophical sense doesn't lay within a specialization, or the furthering of one object in one distinct vector, but the entire movement of that object into a different subspace entirely. To combine rhythms and genres that normally never coexist (country x rap?! That would be hilarious!), to take objects and change where they are placed in relation to everything else (why don't we shift the angle of this film to this ...), such is the way that new combinations of things are born and from there, true innovation.

I don't have much else to say about this topic. However, I wish to deliver the message that innovation is something that we should all pursue, perhaps even on a personal level. While the juxtaposition of objects might be easy to facilitate logistically (let's put this banjo in this symphony ...), it is harder when we do it as ourselves. Who ever thought of juxtaposing themselves into another situation, a what-if scenario, another world and another existence? Yet, perhaps to continue growth or at least, promote change, we should seek experiences that are radically not our own. In this way, we might be able to innovate ourselves and in turn, understanding, experience, and share something that perhaps is fundamentally new and different from all that came before. Innovate ourselves, without fear, without hesitation.

Today, I'm finally back where I belong. Hence, I am lazy.

Cheers.