If government will just stay out of the bar, ideas will meet and mate and produce wonderful things.
An idea walks into a bar. She meets another idea. They get
together, and nine months later (or maybe it’s nine minutes or
seconds? It’s not clear how it works with ideas), a new idea is
born. A baby idea with the best traits of both parents.
When this happens a lot, everyone gets smarter and the world
gets better.
Did you know that ideas have sex?
It’s a weird concept, but the more I think about it, the more
right it seems. I learned it from British journalist Matt Ridley, a
recent
guest on my Fox Business show.
Ridley, author of
The Rational
Optimist, says the reason life gets better is that ideas
have sex.
“Ideas spread through trade,” he told me. “And when they meet,
they can mate, and you can produce combinations of different ideas.
I think a good example is a camera pill, which takes a picture of
your insides on the way through. It came about (during) a
conversation between a gastroenterologist and a guided missile
designer ... a process very similar to sex in biology, because
through sex, genes meet and recombine, and you get new combinations
of genes. That’s what causes innovation in biology, and innovation
in culture.”
Read More:
Reason.com/ideas-have-sex-and-were-better-for-it
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