From New York magazine’s obituary of David Lynch:
“At times it seemed as if Lynch was trying to do with cinema what he would recommend that aspiring artists do …: realize that you don’t know what you think you know, and that the guiding principles and systematized rules that were reinforced throughout your existence, in life itself as well as art, are meaningless lies. Something greater and more powerful can be accessed by abandoning or shattering them.”
Which reminded me of a Kant quote (paraphrased):
“[Always] act as if the maxims of your will could become the principle of a universal law.”
It seems as if *some* people are bending reality and proving this to be the case, so perhaps more of us on the other side of things ought to give it a try as well. Maybe the rules of reality have changed. It certainly seems that way sometimes…