Thinkology
Sunday, 22 June 2008
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Silito's Original Thinkology
Welcome to silito's original school of thought.... My first cut deals with the origins of "FAKES" This is going to be a mammoth controversial topic of discussion. Figure this out.... Its a simple and indisputable fact that each and every day that passes, people come across different objects but never bother to classify them as fakes or originals.
On a daily bases as I move around my mind gets tempted to classify most of the objects i come across as either fake or original. I will use a very simple and common example....a 'chair'.....Im convinced that majority of people have had the privilege of seeing or sitting on an object called a chair. Try to recall several types of chairs you came across in your life.... can u you try to remember which one of those chairs was the original? By the way, the simplest question that comes to one's mind is "what would be the best criteria of identifying an original chair from a fake one.?"
As for me, when I look at a chair I try to my level best to imagine how the first chair looked like... this question will persuade my mind to take a long journey back in time i.e. into into hundreds of years ago. Fortunately I end up convinced that the first chair to be made was NOT even the original chair. Meanings that i can’t even try to make a comparison of the first chair and today’s chair.So where are we now???? For me, it means that this first chair was just a representation of the original idea of an object the person wanted to use for sitting on.This idea brings me to the conclusion that the first chair to be made was only a representation of the idea of an ideal object for sitting on and that is according to that person. Since this chair was not the original one I'm persuaded to classify it as the 'original fake chair' or one can choose to call it as a fake of the original idea of a chair.
This school of thought allows me to safely classify the second chair as a fake of the original fake. In that same order it follows that the third chair to be made can be safely classified as fake of the fake. Then the rest are fakes of the grand fakes. It means chairs that you see today are just objects that cannot be linked to the first generation of fake chairs....
silito.
