tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718974271981930123.post2786789456005243246..comments2023-04-15T04:12:01.092-05:00Comments on Conservatory Bound: stupidity plus --alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04585425683549946199noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718974271981930123.post-12986936904846804322007-03-14T14:38:00.000-05:002007-03-14T14:38:00.000-05:00Ok so the sum being more than the total of its par...Ok so the sum being more than the total of its parts lead you to the concept of visualization, which is a part of a larger whole, very hard to fathom? Something along those lines?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718974271981930123.post-49271959791809450332007-03-13T15:13:00.000-05:002007-03-13T15:13:00.000-05:00Anon.!Hmm, re-reading my post, I guess I didn't re...Anon.!<BR/><BR/>Hmm, re-reading my post, I guess I didn't really elaborate on the connection in my mind. I was trying to observe a particular case of "the sum being more than total of its parts," e.g., not being very bright + deceitful is incredibly different from those two qualities separately.<BR/><BR/>Now that I consider it, I think I was also working from the assumption that the introduction of one to the other is an importantly different case from the reverse (chem analogy: adding water into a highly acidic solution is different from the reverse). Not sure if that's necessarily possible with personality traits -- I don't really believe that there is some divine personality chem lab.<BR/><BR/>I think a post that sort of skirts the superficial issue of elitism vs. stupidity (which is weird, since they aren't opposites, even in a non-Derridean viewpoint) is one by Standing Room Only:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.thestandingroom.com/blog/2007/03/the_notion_of_c.html" REL="nofollow">clicky</A><BR/><BR/>Oh, so where was I? Oya, the point I had wanted to make was having had these disparate thoughts in this dislocated sources, their joining creates something different, yet still owing to each of the sources. Hmm, and now I think I need to add references to Bruno Latour now -- it really is just an avalanche of association now....(eee, run away!)alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04585425683549946199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6718974271981930123.post-5586588543758867442007-03-13T14:58:00.000-05:002007-03-13T14:58:00.000-05:00I don´t know what you´re getting at with not being...I don´t know what you´re getting at with not being able to stand certain kinds of stupidity and then mentionning "A Soprano on her head" right after. Are you implying that is stupid plus something=intolerable?<BR/>I would be interested to know which of these books you could mostly highly recommend, myself being from an academic family and not having such a penchant for books.;-)<BR/>That being said, I can definitely relate to what you´re talking about. We struggle to be tolerant of others´ ignorance, but when they are arrogantly ignorant or mean and ignorant or crude and ignorant, our "elitism" steps in and we cannot deal. This is okay though. Without a certain amount of elitism, good classical music doesn´t have a chance!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com