Unthinking a thought?

Is it at all possible to unthink a thought once it has been thought?

Isn't the unthinking of a well-thought thought unthinkable?

Who is to judge whether a thought has been well thought, if not the thoughtful?

In these democratic times, however, it seems that 'people' are the adjudicators of well-thought thoughts.

For 'people' an ill-thought thought is one inaccessible to average understanding; they insist on easy, barrier-free accessibility for average understanding. The modern media are there to gate-keep and fulfil this 'democratic' demand of 'people' to keep thoughts palatable. The price paid for this convenience is that 'people' only ever get to hear the clichés of thought. 

The popularization of thinking from the world's leading, prestigious institutions of learning only ever consolidates the status quo. They celebrate their achievements. A break-out from the cast of thought that lies on the mind of our time can only come from a disreputable maverick, a scarcely understood renegade casting off the dead weight of entrenched ways of thinking.

Where does this leave the radically thought, unheard-of, unwelcome thought of a thinker?

It leaves it there dormant in the openness of historical time for, once thought, it can no longer be unthought. 

Truth once revealed can no longer be unrevealed.

Further reading: Challenges for Today’s Thinking.  

On Human Temporality: Recasting Whoness Da Capo De Gruyter, Berlin 2024.