Saturday, May 29, 2010

the nature of things not with david suzuki

The sun is shining and the weather is sweet.
I have been able to master the ability of
doing something and nothing within one
steady movement.
The former balancing out the latter.
The sun is shining and the weather is sweet.

Like always, I enjoy checking out what the electronic newsstands have to offer my mind. Tickling my curiousity with current events, that will be forgotten after the following headline. One thing I found was that science has now proved something we probably have all once or twice questioned.

Creative minds 'mimic schizophrenia'

Creativity is akin to insanity, say scientists who have been studying how the mind works.

It appears that both groups lack the important receptors to filter their realities. The lack their of, allows one to view what surrounds them through refreshed and uninhibited eyes. One sentence cools all artistic angst;
"Creativity is uncomfortable. It is their dissatisfaction with the present that drives them on to make changes."
However, lets not jump up in down in glee so quickly there seems to be a downside to all of this artistic glory. Apparently, the grande package of creativitiy comes with the inconveniences of the good old blues, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Lest we not forget, the side effects, of feeling as if noone truely understands you and that sweet emotion of superiority over all that surrounds you. I felt the need to look at a list to see the truth in their studies.

List of the artistically insane

  • Pablo Picasso: (Schizophrenia)
  • Jackson Pollock:(Bipolar disorder)
  • Claude Monet: (Clinical Depression)
  • Vincent Van Gogh:(Bipolar disorder)
As I was telling my friend about this we were led to towards the tangent of thought where I brought up that even Walt Disney held some factors of insanity. His desire to be cryogenically frozen can be one of them. I am a bit unsure if this is a urban legend. Regardless of its truths I will continue to believe that Disney was on that cryogenical tip. Like Mel Gibson, Jamie Lee Curtis and Elijah Wood in Forever Young. Where apparently; Time waits for no man but true love waits forever. Im sure tay-Z felt inspired by this lovely classic. My youngin self was defiantely into this one mustering out little bouts of compassion to mel gibsons icey blue eyes.


I must finish this off with giving a R.I.P shout out to another who crossed the line to the otherworld. Im sure all the animal conservationist out there have heard through the grapevine of the passing of the
Alaotra Grebe. The Alaotra grebe (Tachybaptus rufolavatus) was a medium-sized bird who was always nice to his neighbours that inhabited Lake Alaotra and surrounding areas in Madagascar. The Alaotra Grebe was once thought to have thrown in the towel to become a complete a social recluse. Last time it was spotted on the mean waterways of Madgascar was at the epic wedding of Tina&Leos in 1985. The high amount of haters unaware of the consequences to their actions can be blamed for the extinction of the once sedentary bird.

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