Re: Barbarians vs All Blacks 1973


Ferdi Greyling wrote:

> On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 15:30:54 GMT, Martyn Winters
> <ziggy.stardust@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> << For me genius
> >can be seen in the works of Lennon, Van Goch, Wittgenstein, Dafydd ap
> >Gwilym, Fanny Trollop, but not in the scribblings of over-hyped bean
> >counters.>>
>
> Lennon? He wasn't that good....
>
> Tom Waits is better.
>
> Anyway, add TS Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Ernest Hemingway, Jorge Luis
> Borges etc and I cheer with you.
>
> And allow me to point out that in the realm of philisophy, art and
> literature there are an equal number of extremely boring plodders as
> in maths?
>
> Also in rugby, of course...

Yes, of course you are correct in this instance, especially about the
distribution of plodders (but not IMHO about Lennon). The thing that
gets my goat is the adulation that number crunchers get. It is
completely disproportionate to the regard with which artists are held
for no reason other than most people reckon they have a novel in them,
or they can paint, create a poem to match those of Keats, or write a
best selling tune, but arcane math is beyond them. The truth is, they
can't do any of these with any degree of accomplishment, but the fact
of their inability in math being obvious and not arguable makes them
believe, incorrectly, that great mathematicians are somehow
intrinsically better and more worthy of the mantle "genius" than great
artists.

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