Fill The Tubes With Your Stupid Ideas

Cole talked about filling notebooks with your stupid ideas. I want to talk about filling the interwebs with your stupid ideas.

Cole talks about indirectly influencing the creation of artwork. Nowhere other than the internet can average-Jane write about her stupid ideas and potentially have millions of people reading them. But this is not just an issue of numbers, it’s mostly an issue of permanence. The stupid poems that I wrote late at night as a final project for English last year could have just sat on my hard drive until they accidentally got deleted or corrupted. But now they are online, and furthermore there’s a big fat Creative Commons license slapped on them. Perhaps someone somewhere eventually will find them inspiring or interesting. Maybe they’ll want to share them with their friends or incorporate them into some other creative work. Or maybe my poems will be interesting to some historian several hundred years from now as they try to understand some aspect of the world that I lived in when I wrote them. Or maybe they will never be of any use to anyone ever. Well, that would have been the case had I simply left them on my hard drive. What have I got to lose?

Creative works are pieces of culture. Culture is a terrible thing to waste.