Guest guest Posted July 6, 2002 Report Share Posted July 6, 2002 , Wim Borsboom <wim@a...> wrote: > "We all started out prodigies, I think that's where I trying to lead in my question. Our essential nature is prodigious. I was watching a documentary on prodigies and as I saw this little boy whip out intense classical pieces on the piano, I wondered two things. First, how does this happen and second, what if this kid were born into a world in which there were no pianos. I resolved the answer to the first question with the "Collective Conscious". It's all there, like on a hard-drive and every once in a great while one of us tunes into a station that on the surface appears miraculous. But far more miraculous than the existence of these kinds of prodigies in our world is the fact that it happens at all and furthermore, how does this effect us all in our everyday lives? What are we missing? I'm not suggesting that it's a desirable thing for everyone to instantly became a master pianist. On the level of form and manifest it could be something as simple as being a better person... It's all here. Wow! Everything right now. Tuning in, tuning out WDAVID Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 6, 2002 Report Share Posted July 6, 2002 "We all started out prodigies, I think that's where I trying to lead in my question. Our essential nature is prodigious. Indeed, that is absolutely so. A parallel thought for me is that of a tribal village basically cut off from modern or western civilization. We sometimes make the silly error of thinking all members of such a simple society as "simple people" but nothing could be further from the case. It is true that the process of formal training and education can nurture and fine tune native abilities, but genius occurs in all places in all times. What of the genius born into a very rural society or tribal village? Given opportunity he might be a Mozart, a Yo-yo-Ma, an Einstein, or an Edison. So might many o f us all, except that we have never connected with the right thing, or have not had the blessing of formal training necessary to develop the native talent...hiding, so to speak under the surface. Beyond this apparent tragedy is the reality that we often seem to ignore...that some people are given a lot more native talent than others, and some are rather given short shrift and small brains. So, truly, humans in general have prodigious abilities, but some never quite have a fair shot...whereas others are given more than a fair share...and even then, they cannot flourish in the culture or society that they are living in. Some waste the talent, some simply cannot focus it all, some mistakenly get lured into totally wrong paths for their talents...and some just become politicians, and we all know where that leads! Blessings, Love, Zenbob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 6, 2002 Report Share Posted July 6, 2002 your image of the universal Radiohead, is very apropos. There is the well documented study of monkees that learn a particualr new technique of shellfish cracking on an isolated island, and soon all the monkees of this species, near and far, have picked up this talent. I think that intelligence is always there, and we just need to set our dial to the correct frequency. Some of us keep tuning to Rap stations, some to classical and others just rock on. Maybe the folks tuning to the Rap stations should visit other parts of the dial, just in case. Blessings, Zenbob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 6, 2002 Report Share Posted July 6, 2002 Hi David and Zenbob, Not too much time right now to dive deeper into this subject, but as I was pondering, I was remembering the movie "I Am Sam"... There is some sort of genius lurking in that movie, but not the kind like an "idiot savant"... do not take me wrong. The prodigiousness comes out at the very end... It is actually a combination of the bonsai-beauty crookedness of minds, behaviours, manoeuvres and life situations that eventually produces a very con-genial solution... I saw in this movie how social infrastructures in a very meandering way, somehow still positively conspired to get things right..., so very right. In the movie, I saw not the prodigiousness of a single person, as each one somehow seemed to fail in his or her own aspirations and ideals, but I saw the prodigiousness of a mix of complex living situations, composting so to say to form a rich and humid subsoil from which lotuses can grow... (or a large pumpkin patch) This movie could have been so sappy or predictable, another Kramer vs. Kramer (however good that movie was), but the genius behind the movie was a kind of "laissez faire" based on a refound hope that somehow the proof that society can get it right, one way or another, is still in the .... Wim (I did not want to say pudding, one mix of metaphors is enough ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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