Re: MD Myth of the Stand-Alone Genius

From: jc (jcpryor@nccn.net)
Date: Sat Aug 13 2005 - 20:54:46 BST

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    Thanks Sam,

    At 10:24 AM +0100 8/11/05, Sam Norton wrote:

    So to put that more positively, the social level is the precondition
    for both the articulation of ideas, and the reception and propagation
    of ideas - but that doesn't mean that the intellectual level is
    reducible to the social level. That leaves open the possibility
    (reality IMO) of new intellectual static patterns being dependent on
    formation within the minds of a single individual.

    jc responds

    I think the interesting thing is this, when the individual formulates
    the new intellectual patterns, I would say they do this out of some
    unfelt (or felt) need of the society as a whole. The society has
    problems to solve in its evolution to Quality and the only way it is
    going to get its problems solved is through the careful and caring
    thoughtfulness of its genius individuals.

    But the interplay between society and the individual is so complex,
    that I don't see any real fruit borne of wielding any sort of exacto
    analytical knife divorcing the two. How is Quality served by doing
    so?

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