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March 19, 2004
Fun Intelligence
Fun is fantastic, joyful, and well.... FUN! Does fun have a survival advantage? I think it most definitely does. Even if it doesn't, it sure is fun anyway. So what do we have to loose? And if it does, we should all take our fun more seriously! Below is some excerpts from Bernie DeKoven over at Deep Fun, that are as timely as ever:
You know how they talk about all these "intelligences" - like the "creative intelligence" and the "emotional intelligence" and the "mathematical..."?
Well, today I've been wondering if maybe "fun" is one of those "intelligences." Maybe our whole ability to perceive fun and create fun, the whole complex of rational and emotional and physical processes is part of an Intelligence.
So I'm thinking maybe there is this Fun Intelligence, and that those of us in particular who are particularly gifted with this Intelligence have in fact found it to be central to our survival: socially, emotionally, physically, spiritually, spatially, mathematically...
As with any Intelligence, I guess the first question in determining its value and relevance is to ask if it has any contribution to make to our survival.
Good question.
On a social level, the Fun Intelligence is frequently all that stands between you and getting beaten to death by a gang of bullies. If your FI (Fun Intelligence) isn't high enough, you tend to make fun OF just when you think you're making fun WITH. In the locker room or sports field, failure to perceive the fun intention of a slap on the ass becomes a slap in the face, which frequently leads to a punch in the nose.
On the inner playground your FI is often all that stands between you and catatonic schizophrenia. Your ability to laugh at yourself, to decide not to take things so seriously, to make light out of your darker suspicions...
Intellectually, your FI helps you toy with problems that are simply too big to grasp, to keep yourself alive to the possibility of unanticipated solutions and resolutions. And when it comes to your body, your FI leads you to new sensations, new levels of engagement, new ways to experience the world. It takes you into the deserts and the mountains and beside the still waters. It restoreth the freakin' soul.
I don't know about you all, but spring is coming here on the Norther Hemisphere, and I plan on spending a lot of my time out having fun. I probably won't be doing anymore freestyle skydiving like I did in years past, but there are plenty of things to keep me busy this summer.
Posted by Bennu at March 19, 2004 01:07 AM | TrackBack