Monday, 24 December 2018

genius



“Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. It's a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.”

Her story matches mine. There is mental churn which, in genii, gives the subjective impression of somebody who has got ‘it’ fixed. But there is too strong a flavour of magic. In essence the churn  rearranges the knowledge, feelings and moods (KFM) that are interactive in real time). 

The only constant thing is change. Fingernails need clipping, corpses need burying, mountains erode, galaxies flash in and out of ‘existence’.

It takes genius to see that the world is round, that heavier than air machines can fly, and that a woman’s place is in the home.

One of Shakespeare’s characters reckons “that man thinks too much, such men are dangerous”. This goes along with the idea of “keeping the peasants in ignorance”; because ignorance is “bliss”.

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