Many people are uncomfortable with strangeness in things that
may surround them. Yet they are often attracted to strangeness in their
entertainment choices. Why this seeming contradiction?
People who live a life of creativity and imagination—in the
arts and sciences—know that at the end of any adventure of discovery, there is
strangeness—a black hole, an unexpected creature living deep in the sea, art
that explodes reality, human behavior. For them, strangeness is what’s expected
and what is the actual reward.
Though this strangeness of the new and different makes folks
uneasy, it lifts one more veil of misunderstanding, expands human potential and
makes the world seem comfortably true again.
So enjoy being genuinely strange. Just don’t get to weird.
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