Signs You May Be an Iconoclast

[Waking Times]: An iconoclast is an individual who personifies a rebellious, contrarian, and oppositional spirit. They would rather reduce the world to a tabula rasa than become any kind of idealogue. More existential than teleological, more syncretistic than monistic, more unorthodox than orthodox, iconoclasts are icons of mutability, able to adapt and overcome rather than succumb to the rigid tendencies of the human condition.

As an iconoclast, you are not a rebel without a cause, but a rebel with a cause. Your “cause” is to always be in search of a better way of being human in the world. Which means you are almost always in opposition to existing “ways.” Especially ways that kowtow to facile authority and claim to be unquestioningly true.

You understand that the human mind is more of a delusion-generator than a truth-generator. From this understanding, you use the counterintuitive strategy of contrarian thinking. You are all about turning the tables on established thought. You flip the script so that no single script ever becomes scripture. You blindside established logic and reasoning so that new logic and reasoning can emerge....<<<Read The Full Article Here>>>...