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My thinking is that ideas are a consequence of perspectives and myths rather than things that simply occur to you, because of reasoning, knowledge accruement, or some rare special trait. Most people share similar worldviews, perspectives, and myths, most of the ideas that can be born out of the major worldviews, perspectives, and mythological structures to the western science and philosophy have come and gone. It's time we have new paradigms, perspective shifts, and myths and then ideas will spring fresh again for a time and then the creativity will wane once again, until another new cultural period occurs that results in new paradigms, perspectives shift, and myths.

To me philosophy is comedy, tragedy, satire, irony, and realism all at once. To see all of philosophy as comedy is to uphold one genre or perspective as a panorama. Every philosophy is a symptom of the psychology of an individual and I'm afraid the range of those persons within the history of philosophy is enough to fill the pages of Shakespeare. Philosophy seen as a human activity rather than body of knowledge is comedy, tragedy, satire, irony, and realism all at once.