Before I begin, although this article is based somewhat on fact, it is a metaphor for how life should and should not be lived.
Bessie Smith did not have a headstone or even a real and official marker for her grave for years.
People remembered her, but, she was like a cousin in the basement in a sense.
Not any genuinely human life should be that unimportant, especially someone who contributed to society and culture in some great way, but, it happens.
Janis Joplin finally bought Bessie a proper headstone in 1969 after she died around 1939.
Sometimes, it takes sixty years or more for greatness to be recognized, but when it happens it will eventually get recognized for what it is, quiet or loud.
I remember this motion picture called "Eddie And The Cruisers" and its sequel, it was not much movie wise, seemingly.
But I remember it was about a rock star who faked his death and resurfaced about twenty years later to become more famous than ever and everyone admitting that he was an innovator for his time.
My point to these two stories is this: Sometimes, innovation goals go beyond the current span of time into the future and patience, understanding and tolerance must be had to genuinely innovate in this way.
Reality is forever, innovation is always, is the point also of this article.
What is "crazy" now will be normal later is also the point of this article.
What does not work now, will work later is also the point of this article.
Too many people think that the present and the past are the measure of everything.
Well, if thinking like that were accurate, we would still be using candles as a main lighting source in the twenty-first century, and we would still be driving a variation on the Model-T Ford car, instead of hybrid electrical cars with minor league gas engines now, would we not? So, I can honestly say, crazy sounding now, establishment sanity that is reality later or the amazing modern "hot rod" of yesterday will be the sorry and slow junk vehicle of tomorrow.
And the amazing and impractical of today will be the normality of tomorrow.
It is all in the perception, reality and workings of what it is and will be in that order.
Today may be cold, hard cash, tomorrow may be a promissory note, but reality always exists.