Thinking anew

"All the great thoughts have long since been thought. What remains for us is to think them anew."

                                                                                                               --  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That may be true, but we don't intend to give up, at least not here. Here we intend to seek new thinking, without bothering to even consider whether there is anything new to be thought.

Let's take, for example, two of America's most popular writers, Ann Coulter, and Chris Hedges.

Ann is popular on the politcal right, and Hedges attracts agreement among liberals. Many people have read one or the other, but I rather doubt that very many people have read both of them.

I would recommend reading both. Neither one of them really has anything new to say, but, if you put them together in a strange mixture of ideology, and shake the mixture up just a bit,  you might have something really new. It is perhaps a sign of openmindedness to add to your reading list the works of people with whom you know in advance you are likely to disagree.

If you are a left wing socialistic radical liberal, I recommend Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter. Rush don't write much, but he sho do talk a lot.

If you are a hard nosed conservative, try some Gore Vidal, Chris Hedges, Sam Harris, Howard Zinn, or Noam Chomsky.

Maybe new thoughts are created by recombining the thoughts of others.