The truly hidden things are hidden in
plain sight. You'll rarely think to look for them there. Once you
notice them, everything suddenly becomes so clear: “Why have I not
thought of this before?” Why? Because the Status Quo is your enemy.
It disorients you without you even knowing, swings you in circles
over and over along the same old path.
This is why “thinking outside the
box” is difficult sometimes. The broken record of the Status Quo
wants you to think it is all that exists.
How do you break from this prison, make
new roads, build new cities of thought an concept? You could pray
for divine guidance, or cast a spell and watch new thoughts and ideas
sneak into your mind. There is another way, the way of foolery and
ridicule. Status Quo has no sense of humor. It hates the irrational,
the weird. That is why weird is sometimes scary: it's the Status Quo
whispering in your ear, “Stay away from that! Come back to the safe
old merry-go-round.”
Kill the merry-go-round. Shoot it in
the face, bury it in the earth and let it rot and fertilize the New,
the Strange, and the Weird that you'll grow in its place.
Look for seeds in dark, damp places or
on the surface of the sun where the light blinds you and burns your
molecules to dust. Then all things hidden will be hidden no more.
