Pardon for stating the obvious in a guruesque pose but there is far more in
common among these things than there is separately. Entire great cultures
have risen and fallen over thousands of years and operated very effectively
without considering them to be separate. To Newton or Goethe or Pythagoras
or Hermes Tresmegistus, the idea of doing one and not the other would be
absurd. Einstein imagined his answers before proving them mathematically-
when he could. Things like the symposium in question are this unity trying
to assert itself in the face of walls built by specializing jargonists who
are mainly operating territorially for self-serving reasons or as the result
of acting out unexamined assumptions of the greater culture. The two halves
of the brain, the rational and nonlinear approaches, have to crosspollinate
and become unified under some greater flag; perhaps some notion of how
thought should happen, how to characterize problems in such a way that the
right- or left- or collaborative approaches could be selected, sequenced,
balanced, in some useful way to produce results in some fashion.
Compartmentalization leaves the highest functions of each specialist unused
to a great extent, there is a gap left, that's what the spark flies across.
Method is all important and of special concern to both groups; the local
hyperfocus on personality/identity and success/influence means that great
figures are studied and admired but the way they did things is not emulated.
The dictionary for this is fairy tales, as Einstein recommended, in which
metaphors for this sort of thing are constant; simply substitute your
half-heads for your Jungian animus and anima, add salt and sugar, stir.
Serves four.
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