Weeds grow strong. Weeds grow wherever they please. Weeds are hard to kill. You pull them out, and they grow back — time and time again. Weeds come in all shapes and sizes. Weeds can prosper in nearly any environment.
Weeds are independent thinkers. Jeff Bezos. Warren Buffett. Karl Benz. Martin Luther King, Jr. Johannes Gutenberg. Seth Godin. Alan Watts. Joseph Campbell. Ray Dalio. To name a few.
What do these individuals have in common? Each of them are weeds in society’s garden of ignorance. They refuse to let popular opinion govern their decisions. They consider the facts, as they are currently known, and make a decision. When the facts change, they are willing to change their point of view to meet the current dimensions of reality.
Our culture needs more weeds. Weeds are nature’s support corps and are vital to a healthy universe. They are a reaction to the myriad of deficiencies in our culture. Most importantly, weeds perform a vital job in our ecosystem: they quickly establish, protect, and restore the humanity that has been left exposed by natural and human-caused disturbances.
Be a Weed.