Listen up as this surgeon turned polymath explains the unusual patterns he sees in the web of human activities from Type to Sex. This is the kind of gentleman who was disappearing from academia as I entered in the 60’s … the iconoclastic genius valued because they were different … somehow this one survived and found a way to express himself in books. Three so far and one on the way. The Alphabet Versus the Goddess came to my attention some years ago arguing that when the alphabet is received into a culture it becomes psychotic and violent for a period as it assimilates a new way of perceiving its world. Not what most of us would imagine over breakfast. Art and Physics argues that artists had the breakthrough ideas later discovered in science about 50 years later. Would that be nature or nurture? So enjoy a listen while watching such a mind peer into the upper realm to answer the questions of Conversations with History.
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