The idea that strong emotions or wild creativity become destructive or useless if immediately acted on or suppressed, but powerful if intentionally contained.
The reason yelling online achieves nothing, while albums, movements, jokes, and laws change the world.
Chaos that learned how to wait.
Synonyms:
“Let the turbine spin”
“Don’t go kinetic yet”
“Sit in it first”
“I was about to rage-post, but then I remembered the Angry Monty Python Motor Engine Pink Floyd Principle and went for a walk instead.”
“That album worked because it followed the Angry Monty Python Motor Engine Pink Floyd Principle—pure emotion, perfectly contained.”
“Bro, you’re violating the Angry Monty Python Motor Engine Pink Floyd Principle. You need a container.”
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)