Is it true that any idea made public will sooner or later turn on its author...?

Question

and confiscate the pleasure they got while thinking it?

Answer 1

I think people just like to listen to themselves talk, or in this case see themselves type.  

Answer 2

This is a very observant question I would guess is based on experience and I would have to say I agree with it's truth.  There are so many times I write and re-write an answer or an email or some form of correspondence while trying to get the "wording" politically correct in order to minimize the chance of it being misconstrued.  I don't like to just blurt out words without thinking first how they can be interpreted.  Even where you place a simple comma can easily change the meaning of a sentence.  Alas, even with these preventive measures, there is always someone who will twist a phrase or description into a weapon of attack.  The only thing I take away from this is that they will hang themselves (figuratively, of course) with their own traitor-ism  

Answer 3

No, there have been a few ideas that have been cause for satisfaction on the part of the author when they were made public. The author of the idea sometimes gets to see a lot of good from the idea. Just because the implementation of ideas can often turn into something not intended by the author (and often can upset the author of the initial idea) does not mean that such cases are universal.

Answer 4

Similar to a secret, once it is told it is at the mercy of those who interpret it.

Answer 5

Well,  if the author is given due credit and is quoted,  the pleasure will never wane.

But if it is plagiarised,   then it will be too painful....

Answer 6

Yes cuz there are a lot of judgmental idiots out there and everyone believes their own opinion is better than everyone else's. Just ignore threats people make and realize that they are deserving of pity for their jealousy and ignorance that's underneath. Be proud of your accomplishments!

Answer 7

Yes, and steal your potential riches and fame.

Answer 8

Not always. It depends on whether the author did it for the money, or the pleasure. You can have money, it's not bad, but if it's your soul purpose it will never be enough.

Answer 9

Hmmm...

I suppose it would depend on the relevance of the idea to the culture upon which it is released coupled with the effect on said culture. For example, in 1938, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann performed the first experiments detecting nuclear fission but were unable to explain what they saw. Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch later offered explanation.  Five years later the Manhattan project was initiated and culminated with the end of World War II through the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Can you imagine the initial excitement of their discovery of a new physical chemical reaction? Or their delight in dreaming of the possible implications of an almost limitless energy source? Only to have your idea result in the deaths of almost a million people?

On the other hand, take Hitler's vision of a "better Germany." His ideas unleashed almost caused a complete genocide. Yet, I suspect (and this is only my opinion) he didn't loose a wink of sleep over it.  So, even though his idea did eventually turn on him, I don't think any of the pleasure or satisfaction he felt while dreaming up his idea was sucked away.

But, in my opinion, there are... who knows how many more... ideas unleashed upon the public that actually make the world a better place (MLK's dream of equal rights) or, possibly even more commonly, fizzle out and die, so no pleasure potentially loss there.  

What a great question!!!!!!!!!!!!