← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Hugh Lincoln
Thread ID: 18122 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2005-05-06
2005-05-06 19:10 | User Profile
Of sorts...
This TOQ review has a thought-provoking paraphrase on society and the grasp for excellence: "Indeed, Friedrich Nietzsche maintained that high culture depends on a subjection of the majority that sets the creative minority free."
[url]http://theoccidentalquarterly.com/vol4no4/lj-murray.html[/url]
"Subjection," of course, has an un-PC ring these days, neverminding that any government or taxation "subjects," as does the natural order. But the point is well-taken. I would not go so far as to try justifying slavery with this idea, but I certainly agree that there's them that can, them that can't, and if some form of force is needed get support for the former, that is easily defensible.
Great inventions, great literature, great music, great art, great architecture... all this creative genius has historically come from those with the support for leisure. Not workaday wage-makers. If Bach had to pull overnighters at Hardee's, I doubt we'd have his music today. Kinda like how, if you want seriously genius techno stuff, you should stick your R&D guys in a big warehouse and just let them play around all day --- instead of demanding product X within Y number of weeks, all hours accounted for.