http://zoide.net/auriculabovinari/critical-point The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://zoide.net/idolatrizing-bubbles Ideas are like bubbles in a boiling pot.<br />When the temperature gets close to 100 C, there will be a 'first' bubble to bubble.<div><br />Ideas are the bubbles of the Zeitgeist, of the context, of the circumstance.</div><div><br />Had the first bubble waned, had it been frustrated, others would inexorably come.<br />Tautology: the first one to bubble is the first one to bubble.<br /><br />Ideas want to effervesce.<br /><br />Words like 'father of this', and 'seminal that' point back to individuals. But ideas are like droplets of water from saturated vapor: they will condense out of sheer necessity.<br /><br />Condensation is an event, Evaporation is an event.<br /><br /></div><div>The primacy of the first bubble is irrelevant.<br />Given the normal conditions, it will boil.<br /><br />No one ever heard of bubbles fighting over who bubbled first.<br />T'would be silly.</div> http://zoide.net/idolatrizing-bubbles#comments context critical point inexorability originality ownership of ideas Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:23:00 +0200 633 at http://zoide.net