Contrarian Blog Entry

Hypothesis: there’s a big difference between an original thinker and a contrarian.

Facile Supporting Argument: (stating the bleeding obvious) an original thinker has thoughts that are new to mankind whereas a contrarian simply has views that are different to those around him.

Example: I am sure the ideas of this blog entry are new to some and could be labelled as original thinking. But on the contrary I am sure that these thoughts have been had before by at least one of the 107 billion people that have walked this earth.

Complication: but then you might say, what if that one person amongst the 107 billion had kept her thoughts to herself? Then she may as well have been a bear in the woods, poking and pondering her poo.

Resolution: when in doubt fabricate a Venn diagram and refer to an interesting sounding 20th century French existential philosopher – Camus for instance. That’ll silence your bog standard TV-educated Australian adversary.