Agree and Disagree

Creative work suffers from woke thought.

Creative work also suffers from conservative thought.

Contradiction and creativity live in harmony:

When everything fits neatly together, you’re doing jigsaws, not art. Nothing wrong with jigsaws - they can be fun to do - but the creative work is already done. Putting pieces in places that they don’t belong isn’t how jigsaws work.

When everything doesn’t fit, and you make something totally different that somehow reconciles opposing ideas, now you have an opportunity to create something new.

“1,000 songs in your pocket” was contradictory until it wasn’t. And when it wasn’t, the iPod started.

“Stoicism but fun” was contradictory until it wasn’t. And when it wasn’t, the Mortiverse started.

Let contradictory ideas live in your mind together. Choose not to have an opinion, and instead dance with the ideas.

Who knows what you’ll create.