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momo's avatar

I feel you, friend. Post-anything is an intellectual red flag for me. That said, I do like the flavor of confusion Deleuze gives me. I also feel strangely creative after reading him.

Other than that I get most of my philosophical kicks with Nietzsche.

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Zachary Roush's avatar

This really struck me: "...wherein many of the most intelligent amongst us use language more as a gavel for control than as a tool for communication."

How poignant! Made me wonder how much I use language to gratify my ego...

And I'm curious about the "cultivating genius" question...

I don't know if genius can be cultivated. Genius feels like a historical term - like we give it to people who made an oversized impact in their time, but we just didn't realize how big an impact it would make. I'm not an expert, though. Did anyone call Pasteur a genius in his time?

I think the problem with "cultivating genius" is like commodifying something that best happens naturally. Synthetically creating individuals to have oversized impact in our world seems to come with a lot of issues on the darker side of social engineering. And we worship geniuses maybe too much as it is.

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