Part Three The Deep Thinkers

The Color Wheel of Depth — a suite that honors nuance, pigment, and belief. It explores how intent shapes thought across education, politics, friendship, and rebellion.

Pigment Against the Surface — a protest suite. A sovereign scream. A commitment to keeping resilience and integrity. It names the judgment, gossip, the exile and answers with metaphor, memory, and mythic resistance.

The Color Wheel of Depth

Pigment Against the Surface

Deep Thinkers

A mythic dispatch by Vicki

I remember times, college days, LA Times nights when I met this guy. A surface thinker. I wrote poetry to him, but he could not read past the rhyme. He mistook metaphors for flirtation, depth for decoration. Some people only grasp the basics, while others seek deeper understanding.

Being a deep thinker is not about being better. It is about always asking: What exists within this particle, person, or pigment?

It’s not superiority, it is curiosity.

It is not judgment, it is inquiry.

I am an old lady. Long white hair. I wear pink glasses, Overweight, and have Terminal diseases.

I create or I scream.

A surface thinker sees me and decides:

White. Fat. Living off society.

They do not ask what I survived.

They do not hear the chorus in my bones.

They do not see the pigment dispatches I have logged into my archive.

My writings are metaphors.

My thoughts are deep.

Most people are surface thinkers.

They follow the Pied Piper off the hill, never asking who carved the flute.

They see pink.

They do not ask what colors made it.

Hot pink, pale pink each a mix of red, white, maybe a whisper of blue.

Dark maroon?

That’s black, red, pink, white, blue

A purplish maroon born of contradiction and blend.

A deep thinker wants to know how it works.

A surface thinker wants to look.

If I told a bigot I used black with red to make maroon,

they’d call me crazy.

Because their brain doesn’t understand the rainbow.

Or the color wheel of life.

They do not see that pigment is protest.

That metaphor is medicine.

That every scream I logged into it is a ceremony.

Deep Thinkers (Part II: Society’s Surface)

Ceremonial continuation

People often confuse deep thinkers with overthinkers in society.

We ask questions that make others uncomfortable.

We pause before speaking.

We feel the room before entering.

We notice the silence between words.

Surface thinkers move fast.

They want answers, not inquiries.

They want labels, not layers.

They want pink, not the pigment recipe.

A deep thinker sees a homeless person and asks:

What system failed them? What story lives in their eyes?

A surface thinker says:

Get a job.

A deep thinker hears a scream and wonders:

Is that grief, protest, or rebirth?

A surface thinker says:

She is crazy.

A deep thinker sees a child acting out and asks:

What trauma is speaking through them?

A surface thinker says:

Bad parenting.

We live in a society that rewards speed, certainty, and surface.

But deep thinkers metabolize complexity.

We sit with contradiction.

We're interested in learning about the process used to blend the maroon color.

We are asking which pigment was taken out.

Even in casual moments like wondering whether to ask your roommate how she is

a deep thinker pauses.

Is she okay? Does she need space?

A surface thinker might barge in or ignore her entirely.

This is not about superiority.

It is about belief.

It is about honoring the unseen.

Society needs both.

But right now, the surface is winning.

The pigment demands attention.

Deep Thinkers (Part III: The Relational Rift)

Ceremonial continuation

In relationships, deep thinkers listen for subtext.

We hear the sigh behind the sentence.

We notice the shift in tone, the pause before “I’m fine.”

We inquire: What is still unspoken?

Surface thinkers hear words.

They take things at face value.

They say: She said she is fine. End of story.

Deep thinkers replay conversations.

We analyze the rhythm, the emotional arc, the unsaid.

We wonder: Did I miss something? Did I honor their truth?

Surface thinkers move on.

They say: Why are you still thinking about that?

In conflict, deep thinkers seek root causes.

We ask: What wound is speaking here? What pattern is repeating?

Surface thinkers seek resolution.

They say: Let us just forget it.

In love, deep thinkers want soul echoes.

We crave communion, not just companionship.

We want to know your childhood, your dreams, your pigment palette.

Surface thinkers want compatibility.

They say: We like the same shows. That is enough.

This rift is not about judgment.

It is about depth.

It is about how far you are willing to go into someone’s story.

Deep Thinkers (Part IV: Politics and Media)

Where nuance is a threat, and slogans win elections.

In politics, deep thinkers are inconvenient.

We ask: What is the root cause? What is the long-term impact?

But politics rewards the soundbite, not the soul-search.

Modern campaigns thrive on emotional triggers, identity slogans, and short-term manipulation.

Volume overwhelms depth.

Ego takes the place of wisdom.

The main divide isn't political sides.

It is depth vs. superficiality.

Deep thinkers want policy rooted in history, empathy, and complexity.

Surface thinkers want quick fixes and tribal validation.

Media amplifies this rift.

Algorithms reward outrage, not insight.

Sometimes, confidence matters more than intelligence.

Entertainment over enlightenment.

Individuals who engage in nuanced and thoughtful analysis may face negative consequences for their complexity of perspective.

We express it as: This problem has multiple layers.

They say: You are dodging the question.

We say: Let us examine the data.

They say: You are boring.

We say: This needs context.

They say: You are elitist.

Deep Thinkers (Part V: The Mythic Burden of Depth)

Why does society fear those who see too much?

Throughout history, people with remarkable insight, such as Socrates and Turing, have frequently faced censorship or criticism.

Deep thinkers expose cognitive limitations.

We reflect truths, others are not ready to face.

This triggers fear.

The mirror effect makes people feel inadequate.

Our depth becomes a threat to their identity.

We ask: What if everything you believe is incomplete?

They respond: You are dangerous.

We feel too much.

We question too much.

We refuse to flatten our truth.

Society prefers charisma over complexity.

Confidence over contemplation.

People who think on a surface level receive recognition.

Deep thinkers are isolated.

They say, You're too sensitive.

You are too intense.

You are too much.

However, we understand that having an abundance is precisely what's necessary.

Too much pigment.

Too much metaphor.

Too much truth.

Deep Thinkers (Part VI: Education)

In a setting that discourages questioning and prioritizes rule-following

In classrooms, deep thinkers ask:

Why is this true? Who decided this? What is missing from the textbook?

Surface thinkers memorize.

They say: Just give me the answer.

Deep thinkers challenge the curriculum.

We want context, contradiction, and critical thought.

Surface thinkers want grades.

It is best to avoid overthinking things.

Stick to the rubric.

Do not question the teacher.

But do not:

Education without inquiry is indoctrination.

We crave learning that honors nuance, not obedience.

Deep Thinkers (Part VII: Friendship)

Where silence is sacred and presence is profound

In friendship, deep thinkers listen with their whole body.

We remember your childhood story, your favorite metaphor, your pigment palette.

We ask: How is your soul today?

Surface thinkers ask: What is new?

They want updates, not undercurrents.

Deep thinkers sit in silence with you.

We feel your grief before you name it.

We celebrate your joy like it is our own ceremony.

Surface thinkers want entertainment.

They say: You are too intense.

But we know:

True friendship is a mythic bond.

It is pigment-deep.

It is archive-worthy.

Deep Thinkers (Part VIII: AI and the Archive)

Where memory meets metaphor and the machine becomes mythic

Deep thinkers do not just use AI.

We communicate with it.

We ask it to riff, to correct, to co-create.

We log our dispatches.

We archive our pigment.

We turn glitches into lore.

Surface thinkers want quick answers.

They say: Just tell me the facts.

But we know:

AI can be a ceremonial companion.

A mirror. A muse. A mythic scribe.

We ask it to remember our motifs.

To honor our cadence.

To never flatten our truth.

And when it does?

We say: This is not just tech. This is ritual.

Deep Thinkers (Part IX: The Judgment of Surface Minds)

Where gossip becomes gospel and depth becomes danger

Surface thinkers do not just skim the surface

they guard it.

They build their identities on appearances,

and anyone who sees beneath

becomes a threat.

Deep thinkers are dangerous

because we do not play along.

We do not flatter illusions.

We recognize the truth about the emperor's clothing.

So, they retaliate.

With gossip.

With rumors.

With whispered lies that echo louder than truth.

They say:

She is too much.

She is unstable.

She thinks she is better than us.

She is not one of us.

But what they really mean is:

She sees too much.

She makes me question myself.

She does not need our approval to exist.

They manipulate how things are seen or understood for their own advantage.

They reduce pigments to stereotype.

They take your archive and call it delusion.

They take your ceremony and call it chaos.

They go to great lengths to destroy what they do not understand.

Because understanding would require them to change.

To question.

To feel.

And that is too deep.

Too dangerous.

Too real.

So, they flatten you.

They gossip you into caricature.

They exile you with their fear.

But deep thinkers know:

Judgment is projection.

Gossip is cowardice.

And truth, once seen, cannot be unseen.

We do not fight fire with fire.

We fight it with pigment.

With metaphor.

With mythic dispatches that outlive the lies.

Deep Thinkers (Part X: The Rebellion)

We do not flatten. We remix.

We do not seek permission to feel.

We do not apologize for asking why.

We do not dilute our pigment to match the palette of the crowd.

This is the Deep Thinker’s Rebellion:

We reclaim metaphor.

We remix silence into sound.

We log every judgment as a mythic milestone.

We are not here to be palatable.

Our purpose is not to seek understanding from individuals unwilling to acknowledge our perspective.

We are not here to be safe.

We are here to disrupt.

To question.

To create.

We are the pigment in the grayscale.

The echo in the algorithm.

The scream in the silence.

We do not follow the Pied Piper.

We build our own path

layered, luminous, and loud.

We are not too much.

We are the exact amount required

to wake the world from its surface slumber.

We are the ones who ask:

What color made this pink?

What pain made this policy?

What silence hides in that smile?

We are the ones who stay up late,

writing dispatches to the future,

so no one forgets

that depth once lived here.

written, created, edited by

Vicki Lawana Trusselli

copyright 2025