CREATIVITY | 2007-11-29
Comments lately have been good, but they keep reminding me of Socrates' men in a lightless cave examining an elephant. One says it is ears, one says it's a trunk, etc.
One asks about creativity, another about what is to be done in government, another makes an equally good point about another aspect. All this shows thought, but it does not reflect an understanding of the whole.
A great example of what I am talking about is the TV series Connections. It discusses, routinely, the bouncing around, not just of abstract concepts, but of practical ideas which flow from different applications of seemingly totally unrelated tings in Western Civilization. These things are talked about as GIVENS, a part of the whole.
But "real" analysis consists of digging into obscure writings of some ancient Greek or some ancient Egyptians and showing how, slowly and painfully, it led to what we call "us."
There is not the barest relationship between the dynamic of the society described in "Connections" and the Learned Philosophers of Ancient Civilizations.
All that ancient history, as I said by the time I was eighteen, was "a series of northern invasions." There would be another undiscussed "northern invasion" and a Great Civilization, fed by the slaves on the bottom from the old society, would get another infusion of "barbarians," who, of course, had nothing to do with the new vitality and limited creativity -- and lots and lots of writing for historians to look at.
But only the old writing, not the "barbarism," made history. It was coincidental, in fact it is not even mentioned as coincident, that each new phase of Great slave-based Civilizations began with a "northern invasion."
Everybody as taught that, but only I noticed it.
In my teens.
I'm used to that by now.
When society finally reached Northern Europe and was all white, the explosion occurred. A totally new society developed. It found a use for Africans, the same use they had always had and have today, field hands, bloc voters, and a supply of sperm to get rid of this "white race" which is the obvious explanation for everything Wordists want to attribute to thier Holy Books.
This is the PICTURE. After I am dead, someone will come along and GET IT.