I wish I could be as articulate as Vivienne Westwood, the iconic British fashion designer. She put into words how at odds I am with general opinion. “My diary is a way of trying to communicate the world through my experiences. My point of view is heretical. My enemy is the status quo.” Being a heretic is not a comfortable place to be. One is always at odds with the world. It’s exhausting to swim upstream and challenge the status quo. One is also at odds with oneself. I find it hard to stay the course. It’s a constant battle between disruption or settling. Sometimes it’s easier to dumb down my work for a dumbed down world so that my life will be smoother.

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I wish I could be as articulate as Vivienne
Westwood, the iconic British fashion
designer. She put into words how at odds I
am with general opinion. “My diary is a way
of trying to communicate the world through
my experiences. My point of view is
heretical. My enemy is the status quo.”
Being a heretic is not a comfortable place to
be. One is always at odds with the world.
It’s exhausting to swim upstream and
challenge the status quo. One is also at
odds with oneself. I find it hard to stay the
course. It’s a constant battle between
disruption or settling. Sometimes it’s easier
to dumb down my work for a dumbed down
world so that my life will be smoother.
Sometimes it is easier to sugar coat the
truth. Sometimes it’s easier to go with the
flow. Sometimes it’s easier to take the safety
net of mediocrity. Sometimes it’s easier not
to mess with the status quo. Of course, it’s
soul destroying to settle. Luckily I hang out
with heretics. People who are as
uncomfortable in their own skin as I am. It’s
exhausting, though. Their truth and
standards are so high that they leave me
gasping and battling to keep up. They never
ride the train of conformity and comfort like
I sometimes do. They’re always
challenging. Testing. Pushing. Changing.
Like W. Edwards Deming, they get, that
“change is not mandatory; neither is
survival”. They pull the rest of us out of
the quagmire of ignorance so that we do
have a chance to survive. And, some of us
will be lucky enough to thrive because of
them. I’m privileged to have these people
as my friends. They’re writers, professional
Wakkerstroom Polisie was spoedig op die
toneel.
~ TS ~
speakers and men and women of the spirit
(and, of spirit). None of them are what you’d
call, “normal”. Their very abnormality
makes them giants. I get to see further
because I stand on their shoulders. This
quote stolen and mangled by me from the
famous heretic, Isaac Newton. These
heretics hold me to a higher standard and
make sure that I smarten up. Their work
keeps me on track. They ensure that I never
cheapen my art by asking for less effort and
demanding less work of myself. They know
that mediocrity is a gravitational force whose
Siren’s song is strong. I’m pulled by it ...
every waking minute. If I don’t stand
sentinel to my weaker spirit, I too will find
myself shipwrecked on the rocks of
Anthemoessa. And, that’s a place I’ll never
come back from. Go and find your own
heretic. Find a Newton, Galilei, Musk,
Socrates, Foucault, Tesla, Chomsky, Godin,
Da Vinci, Honda, Smuts, Krog, Suzman,
First, Curie, Einstein, Mandela, Feynman
and Fuller. They’re sitting in your churches,
mosques and synagogues. They’re in your
family. They’re at your work. They’re easy
to spot but hard to emulate. They’re scary
because they have a truth about them that
can be intimidating. They’re singleminded.
They hold themselves to a higher standard.
They look out of place in a world of
sameness, mediocrity and dumbness.
They’re also dangerous. They’re dangerous
to your status quo. If you want to stay the
same, avoid them. If you want disturbance,
struggle, adventure and to live; go to them.
~ Jacques de Villiers ~