Heterodoxy, any challenge to orthodoxy, the accepted status quo. Usually, rebels -- and people with a lust for life, to hell with the accepted rules. Joan Jett's "I don't give a damn about my bad reputation." Artists, thinkers and those who prefer to be more than to have. Often (usually), just my type. As long as mass murder isn't part of the heterodoxy, I'm usually willing to at least listen to such ideas. How about you?
Today's Rune: Harvest.
7 comments:
To "be" more than to "have" sounds like what I've been doing for the last nine or more months.
As for Joan, chhh-chhh-chhh-cherry bomb!
It sounds like my common practice.
I like it, especially when I see it in writing and film.
I like it. Have been accused of much worse. Heretic comes to mind.
MW
Thanks, compadres, for the comments ~~ & cheers to the heterodoxies and "heresies" that keep life interesting . . .
I'm all for heterodoxy!
'Being' with my parents for a change and frustrated today because well of course they are helping me get a new job because of course going out to teach far from the lousy town of idiots who think they are rich (but are so not, or they would have electricity) for a decent wage is embarrassing. Stressful, but I would try it; look at it as a way to meet crazy ass characters to write about. You know, why get stuck being "the artist"...Minutes ago, the quote below helped me relax and figure it out:
"should not worry about having two spirits, belonging to two different cultures, having two souls. Schizophrenia makes you intelligent. You may lose your relation with reality—I’m a fiction writer, so I don’t think that’s such a bad thing—but you shouldn’t worry about your schizophrenia. If you worry too much about one part of you killing the other, you’ll be left with a single spirit. That is worse than having the sickness. This is my theory. I try to propagate it in Turkish politics, among Turkish politicians who demand that the country should have one consistent soul—that it should belong to either the East or the West or be nationalistic. I’m critical of that monistic outlook." Source, Orhan Pamuk, Paris Review Fiction 187
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