Inception

"What is the most resilient parasite? Bacteria? A virus? An intestinal worm? An idea. Resilient... highly contagious. Once an idea has taken hold of the brain it's almost impossible to eradicate. An idea that is fully formed - fully understood - that sticks; right in there somewhere."

- Cobb, in "Inception"

As it turns out, school takes up A LOT of one's time, eliminating chances of activities such as blogging or going to see movies. Of these movies, included was the movie Inception, one talked about among the community in a level that was aggravating and annoying because I hadn't seen it yet. Well, I'd just finished this semester and I FINALLY got to see INCEPTION. I’d have to say it’s one of the greatest movies of the year.

It was about specialized thieves going into dreams and stealing an idea (extraction), or placing one there to make it seem like one’s own idea (inception). The focus of the movie was on the sharing and manipulating of dreams but the idea that I got from it, was inception, real inception: promoting an idea through subtle, repetitive influences. 

It’s cool, because by simply making the movie, they’re performing the only currently possible way of inception. By explaining the concept through media to the people, a few who watch it understand that it’s possible, not through dreams, but hints and little impellents in the persons day. If planned intricately enough, one could change anything in politics or the community. You could koine a word (make a word commonly used), convince someone to work towards inventing a new… thing by showing them the need for it.

Now that I think about it, there was a magician who did it by having yin-yang’s placed all around this lady’s hotel, bus, cloths, and such in very extremely subtle ways, then by surprise, he called her on stage and had her draw something at random. She drew a yin-yang just before he pulled up his sleeve to reveal a yin-yang on his arm. 

If you understand this at all as you read, then I, in fact, have performed inception by giving you these ideas. Then you, by 

This actually also kind of reminds me of a book called “Pastwatch: the Redemption of Christopher Columbus” by Orson Scott Card. They have machines that can view an event in history as it actually happened. He talks a lot about tracing things back to the cause. Such as: If this man is afraid of crows, then something must have happened to cause that. Then tracing back, you would see that the man was attacked by crows as a child, or something like that.


Here's another strange thing about it. The word 'inception' actually means "to begin" or a commencing of sorts. Starting a snowball rolling down a mountain to become a colossal boulder of frozen water particles. An idea, evolving into a revolution.