¶ Degeniuss
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“It is my conviction, from having watched a great many babies grow up, that all of humanity is born a genius and then becomes degeniused very rapidly by unfavorable circumstances and by the frustration of all their extraordinary built-in capabilities. Everybody’s specialized now. We couldn’t be getting ourselves into worse trouble since we also learn that all the biological species became extinct because they over-specialized. So overspecialization’s the way to extinction, and society’s all tied up with specialization. Everybody is born to be a comprehensivist. If nature wants to develop a specialist, she does, and if nature wanted you to be a specialist, she’d have you born with one eye and a microscope fastened on to it.”
¶ Citations
- RBF in “The Listener” transcript by John Donat, 26 Sep’68
