Genius

The all-too common icon of the least common amongst all minds; The shaggy white hair and the eyes, solemn and aged, time-weathered and wizened, penetrate with focus of undiminished sharpness; a sharpness dividing warp from woof of cosmic fabric, the threads thereof, of energy and dimensions, interwoven by Fiat of greater Mind, than he of broad and wizened, moustachio'd face. Is genius, to be equated with hyperborean labrynths of inaccessible complexity? - no - for to 'select and choose between' - this be the meaning and function of 'intellect'; thus, the power to penetrate through complexity to underlying simplicity and from thence, with the tools of that same simplicity, build new and grander edifices of universal enlightenment and wisdom. After all, is not the webbing of cyberspace, spun upon the loom of the simplest binary and the littlest T.O.E. of cosmology, be not the fundamental forces, four, but may well be the Planckian Unit? Yes, and all the ebb and flow of human striving, as in the manipulations of economies and in political machinations; be traced, in context of human nature to simply this; To usurp lordship over others; prideful claims to imagined divinity, stolen. Thus, the purloining of power and of resource at the expense of the weak. Why must minds of genius build, with tools of unearthed simplicity, towers of exalted reason, only to be to each other, intolerant, to alternate viewpoints, hostile. The basic sum of it all is that man must reap what he daily sows; for from such, shall be our world's final destiny. Written November 4th, 2001 © on Nov 03 2001 07:32 PM PST   0 • 10