Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Genius Junkpile I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men [sic] behind whom were centuries of work … progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready and then it is inevitable. Henry Ford The Business of America

Hey! This Is Intelligent! There's everything to be said. William Little

Neo- Schola As [Ann] Casement points [out], Jung was a bricoleur , i.e., one who assembles something useful from whatever materials are available: 'borrowing a metaphorical screw from here, a figurative nut from there and, from elsewhere, an imaginative bolt. This 'bricolage' reflects Jung's view of diversity and complexity of the psyche. Mark Winborn, PhD, Jungian analyst Interpretatiopn in Jungian analysis. P. 171

From the Pieholes of Makebaters Great things are done by a series of small things brought together. Vincent van Gogh

Ludic Cerebration The interactions matter more than the nature of the units. Studying individual ants will never (one can safely say never for most such situations), never give us an idea on how the ant colony operates. For that, one needs to understand an ant colony as an ant colony, no less, no more, not a collection of ants. This is called an “emergent” property of the whole, by which parts and whole differ because what matters is the interactions between such parts. The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority Nassim Nicholas Taleb Incerto

Trap Trip Go Ahead, Open Your Trap People need the wisdom, or the imagination, of others. Who do you learn from? You might have a wise and compassionate friend. But very few people, maybe no people, can invent their own menu of possibilities. Don’t great works of art have something to teach you? Maybe Tolstoy has something to teach you. Maybe Debussy. Maybe many others. No one would deny that Noam Chomsky has special intellectual capacities. Beethoven has special capacities, Ibsen had great insight into the psychology of human beings. If we’re imagining that a better world could be created, don’t we need their help? Wally Shawn

Things That Pop Into Minds Sound is intimate. That’s why I do radio and podcast: the sound connects us, retrieving a pre-internet, pre-printing press, pre-scribal sense of community. Douglas Rushkoff