on imagination

Communities of artists form more or less spontaneously, and that creates the one thing the rich can’t passively generate (although they can attempt to ‘buy’ it) and crave more than any other, culture; ‘the cool’, TASTE; the urban picturesque.

- Comment on Youtube about gentrification in art.

People who have not experienced the thing are unlikely to be generating

truth

. More likely, they’re resurfacing cached thoughts and narratives. Reading popular science books or news articles is not a substitute for understanding, and may make you stupider, by filling your mind with narratives and stories that don’t represent

your own synthesis

.

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state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

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Emerson on humans confining themselves to narrow specialisations.

Low-level domains: usually working in bounded problem spaces, more focused on technical skills, talent is easily defined by excellence with that skill to solve certain tasks or problems.

High-level domains: unbounded problem spaces (e.g. business, humanities, philosophy) ones that are more 'academic', thought-focused, framework-focused. usually