Thinkers like Hoffer pooh-pooh the romantic stereotype of the creative genius as that socially inept crank, dreaming up new concepts and making new products out of the blue, in a blinding flash of original, brilliant, imaginative work. He fabricates something from nothing, generated in a complete vacuum devoid of ancestral or social input to build upon or to reference by comparing and contrasting what is with what one imagines that can exist or come to pass.
More typical, of the garden-variety individuators to be born and to design and to make new concepts, poetry forms and to introduce technological wonders in the near future, will be their stunning aptitude for regarding what is commonplace in a new way, or to build upon what others have done before them, going a little at a time beyond those that got them this far. These pioneers appreciate and readily acknowledge their antecedents and helpful mentors. They build upon what others before them have accomplished. And the trail of development is detectable and obvious.
4-14-2011
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