The Case for Intellectual Laziness: Why Rushing Ideas Kills Them
Has everything already been thought before? Of course. But that won’t stop us from pretending otherwise. Every generation rediscovers the same truths, slaps on a fresh coat of intellectual branding, and declares a revolution. Yet knowledge doesn’t progress in a straight line—it loops, it stalls, it decays, and, if we’re lucky, it resurfaces in richer form. This isn’t an argument for fatalism. It’s an argument for patience. Ideas don’t just stack up like bricks in a tower; they operate more like ecosystems—cycling through dormancy, renewal, and occasionally getting burned to the ground when they’ve grown too tangled....