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Since specialization is a way of coping with the inadequacies of the human mind, it should hardly be surprising that those with the vision of the anointed often view specialization negatively, or that their vocabulary often reflects that. Cosmic decisions require minds with cosmic scope—and to say that there are no such minds, that the human experience must be broken down into manageable-sized pieces, is to deny the vision of the anointed. Meanwhile, those with the tragic vision have often proclaimed the virtues of specialization. Adam Smith attributed much of economic progress to the “division of labor,” Edmund Burke said that he “revered” the specialist within his specialty, and Oliver Wendell Holmes said that specialists were more needed than generalists, whose presumptions he derided. But such views are the opposite of the views among the anointed.
The Vision of the Anointed
Thomas Sowell
Women assigned greater importance to a partner’s financial prospect (thirty-six cultures) and ambition/industriousness (twenty-nine cultures).
The Parasitic Mind
Gad Saad
There is an old Greek proverb that reads, “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
Planting Trees in Shade We’ll Never Know
dailystoic.com
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