Thinking Different

I’m not a big fan of conventional thinking. The idea that things have to be a certain way after they’ve always been that way just doesn’t work for me.

In my life, I’ve very rarely taken the road most traveled. Maybe thats bad or maybe it’s good. I don’t think anyone can say for certain as long as my life is still unfolding.

This morning I watched a documentary on Netflix called Future by Design. You know when you see all those da Vinci sketches of things that have come into existence only within the last 100 years? Jacque Fresco is a guy who’s spent his life doing what da Vinci did … imagining the future.

It’s father’s day and I’ve never met my dad. I was raised by my grandfather, but he’s been dead half my life. This is where divorce stuff gets really weird … it’s like I feel like I’m out of place saying good things about Luria’s dad, but with all my heart, I loved that man! He thought different. When Tullio’s dad died, he hand carved a coffin that was so beautiful the Detroit newspaper wanted to photograph it and publish it, but Tullio wouldn’t let them. Tullio was a filmmaker for part of his life and shot a documentary about Buckminster Fuller. He gave me a book about Buckminster Fuller and that was huge to me. For the time I knew him, Tullio was working on creating an entertainment venue that is futuristic even now. I hated that he wasn’t around to see what we did with GeekBrief.TV because he would have loved it and been so proud of his amazing daughter (and his son-in-law).

Divorce is complicated because I love Luria’s family with all my heart, but now they’re out of my life just like she is. It sucks dirt.

Excuse the digression! I loved this documentary because it shows a man evaluating every part of life from transportation to marriage to religion to energy to house construction. Rather than believing we have to do society the way we’ve always done it, he believes we can start fresh and create something that’s never been done or seen.

I hope he’s right!

You can watch the documentary Future by Design for free here.