genius 2000

From: nmherman@aol.com
>Reply-To: Genius2000Conference2000@egroups.com
>To: Genius2000Conference2000@egroups.com, clebares@fibrogen.com
>Subject: Re: [Genius2000Conference2000] Re: I kiss Genius2000
>Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 22:27:59 EST
>
>In a message dated 11/8/2000 6:37:05 PM Central Standard Time,
>chrudie@hotmail.com writes:
>
> > Can you be a Genius and female? Genius 2000?
> > Isn't there a description of Genius as being kissed by God?
> > But also the spirit of a place, its ultimate, fundamental identity/spirit,
> > what makes it itself?
>
>This is the best post I ever got, maybe, but my brain is too draggled by the
>eternal campaign to deeply appreciate it. I applaud your creativity and
>daring, to make someone else's idea your own. It takes genius to think of
>Genius 2000 the way you did and that's the goal of my work and fierceness.
>
>Anyway, yes absolutely genius can be female! Or any gender or combination
>thereof. Genius is when something's really going on in real life.
>
>I never heard of the description of kissing, but it certainly is apt.
>Netochka N. calls cognition itself an extended kiss between the synapses.
>I'm into the idea of a kiss now because I kissed a few papers after I voted.
>I like the difference between a kiss and a vote: voting should be more like
>a kiss but now its a warlike act, harsh and crude (at least in USA). I
>compare Genius 2000 to God, so genius (fulfilled genius rather than oppressed
>genius is here an important distinction) is being kissed by Genius 2000, no
>doubt.
>
>But it's not something Genius 2000 or God gives you; a kiss isn't like that.
>Or to put it another way, we are God, so salvation or messianism or blessing
>is not a gift from a foreign entity but our own reception of ourselves (our
>genius both collectively and as individuals, to quote the Video).
>
>And yes yes yes, genius is the creative and guardian spirit of cognition, and
>cognition is contextual like an ecosystem, so relations to other geniuses
>(like place, time, other people, nature, all of it) is part and parcel of
>genius.
>
>So thanks for writing Catherine. Perhaps my sister Carter Lebares will
>elaborate further on your interpretation. (She's working on a concept about
>"home," interviewing all different kinds of people to point out some
>materialistic concepts of genius that her neighbors have. It relates to your
>idea of place.) I'll ask her to. But here's my question for you, if I may
>be selfish for a moment: Does Genius 2000 as you interpreted it--i.e., your
>thoughts and feelings while getting the gist of it--seem like a trivial
>truism, or a last-ditch attempt to heal our world's primary disease, the
>hierarchy or tyranny of genius? Do you believe as I do that Genius 2000
>should be welcomed and not rejected?
>
>Restitutio in integrum,
>
>Max Herman
>
>P.S.--the word "vote" comes from the latin "votum", a vow. "Votive" and
>"devout" are from the same verb also. The latin verb in turn is from the
>Indo-European "wegh-" which means "to preach or speak solemnly."