Above is a picture of a light bulb because for whatever reason a light bulb represents someone "having" a bright idea.
Maybe the term "bright idea" was around before the light bulb/idea thing came about thus light bulb became linked to "bright ideas" as they obviously make shit brighter. Unless it is an eco-friendly light bulb like the 1 pictured above which are about as bright as something really really dark and not light at all.
Of course there is then the assumed reason of the whole Thomas Edison thing, who apparently had a few ideas, some of them being bright maybe. Or is it because when someone has an idea they "see the light" of the subject thought about. Maybe not the "light at the end of the tunnel" because that is a reference to someone going through a mad-bad time and are usually questioning their existence/life/living, etc. I am not in a tunnel at the moment, no complaints about life really, no draft suicide notes written lately, so this idea is merely like a light bulb I would've stumbled across in Woolworths on St Georges Terrance on sale. (By the way, that Woolworths is so fucking great you can catch me there anytime between 12:00-1:00pm Monday to Friday usually in the fresh produce or yoghurt section. To save you the trouble, the bananas in my basket are always facing up so that means I am single and ready to mingle).
This light bulb in particular represents my realisation that "having standards" is just a really wanky way of saying you have restrictions. Restrictions inhibit and I fucking hate inhibitions hence why I'm always drunk and doing other mind-altering shit like having crushes on boys and listening to people I probably shouldn't listen to. I know it won't be long before I won't need to drink or do anything to bail on this controlled behaviour crap and then I will probably have a lot more money and far better mornings. Insanity is a far better/more original excuse than being drunk anyway.
Apparently the light bulb is used largely because Edison was a great inventor and he invented it. It's difficult to find out much about it. I'm guessing it works so well as a symbol as it reflects the notion of that Eureka moment, where an idea comes as easy as flicking a light switch, which apparently is how the idea occured to Edison (who is a jerk by the way).
ReplyDeleteReally though, it's funny that an invention over a hundred years old is still used to show a new idea. Somehow it wouldn't feel right for a piece of LED lighting to appear above one's head though.