Original Ideas?
I've heard those beasts do not exist...
As we wrap our brains around the bones
Of others' theories - meaty marrow sucked dry
Through their repetition, reexamination, and reanimation...
You may think, and think quite well,
That adding your peculiar twists
To the urban legend makes it taste sweet
And become easily savored, maybe even believable...
Ah! Yet truth is often stranger than fiction -
Pardon the belaboured cliche -
For those pesky little mundane facts
Often mesh far better with our own experience
Than crazy Texas hyperbole
Or the fantastical phrasings from folklore...
Yet, I've strayed -
I've plumbed down the depths of storytelling,
Which is but a fraction of all that we share -
Not thinking how the rigors of science
Forge theories that trap nuggets of ideas -
"How could general relativity condense from physics before?"
Also, what about impartial reporting of an event,
When the observer almost always sees things with their spin?
Is there an original thought left to be found?
Some breakthrough, that,
Though built on the backs of our ancestors,
Still teases out a connection
Previously unseen, in the world?
Is there storytelling that's a bit more sound
Than the tall tales and fantasies
That propogate far quicker,
Because they appeal to our mental dissections
Of right and wrong unfurled...?
Part of me thinks
We've only scratched the surface
Of what we can yet learn,
If only from truth,
We do not turn.
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