You're Not a Mindless Robot, but what good is a Mind?

Or, Safety in Numbers

First, here's the math: 6,000/6,000,000,000 = 1/1,000,000 = 0.000001%

6,000 people is a lot if you're cooking and cleaning for them. But they are few in comparison to the number of humans currently exhaling green house gases from any and all available orifices.

There are MAYBE 6,000 people in the world who are thinking what might be called 'valid' unusual thoughts. What is a 'valid' unusual thought? Thinking about ways to sexually exploit a co-worker or class mate is not 'valid' thinking, at least for this exercise. Thinking about what exactly is at the center of the core of the earth IS a valid unusual thought. No one you personally know thinks about the center of the core of the earth!

Thinking about how many nose hairs it takes to fill a comforter for neo-natals is not valid unusual thought; thinking about whether creatures living at the bottom of the Marianas Trench are more in tune with the sun or the moon is valid unusual thinking. And again, you don't know a soul who thinks about this problem. Me, either. I just made up the thought, I'm not actually THINKING about it!!!

I'm not a 'valid' thinker; I'm just a blogger. (So what do you do in life? Well, I have a blog....)

My entire point being that 999,999 out of a million people don't think outside the box, and said box is more and more being defined by people who profit from the shape the box is in, and who are also within the box they are defining! Does anyone exist outside the box? I honestly don't know.

Does anyone in the United States of America not have daily access to reruns of Friends or Seinfeld? That was NOT a 'valid' unusual thought.