[MD] The Greeks?

[Matt Kundert]

John said:
I think philosophy and ideas lie dormant through years, not 
in any accumulated drip system, but waiting like seeds, for 
the right social conditions.

And when the right conditions occur, these ideas break 
forth and grow fast and a new paradigm is born.

Matt:
I don't disagree, but think of it this way: the drips are the 
seeds.  The reason ideas seem to suddenly "break forth" is 
only an appearance created by a lot of groundwork that 
largely goes unnoticed (the shit that flowers grow out of), 
which is in some cases, I think, by ideas that didn't seem 
right at the time working their way into the unconscious 
and doing their work anyways.  The idea's genealogy may 
have been effaced from our memory (no one will remember 
how I changed their life yesterday, etc.), but that doesn't 
eliminate it's effect.  (Which produces a largely speculative, 
trial-and-error approach to piecing together cultural change.)

Matt
 		 	   		  
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