[TheForge] stonehenge

[Bruce Freeman]

I don't believe anyone truly engages in "linear thinking," judging by
the definition I found for  that term.  However, I do think few people
think "outside the box."

I've found that assimilating a bunch of seemingly unrelated
information can let me reach conclusions others may have missed.  Some
of the cleverest inventions I've seen seem to have been reached in
such a way.  I am very amused by textbooks that talk about discovery
of fire making, rock knapping, bronze founding, wrought iron making,
etc., as in any way accidental.  I see these things as the product of
genius - the putting together of disparate pieces of information to
achieve a new goal.

That appears to be what this fellow has done with regard to moving
monoliths.  There's nothing unique about the knowledge that you can
spin a heavy weight on a pivot - every playground merry-go-round works
on that principal.  Adding that to the principal of leverage and to
the perceived need to move monoliths is a bit of genius.

The question now is whether this was information generally known, or
whether moving monoliths was the work of a magical few.  Can you
imagine the impact of waking up one morning to go to a festival in a
place you knew but hadn't visited in months, only to find when you got
there that there was a monolith standing where none had been before?
The persons in the know could have gained considerable status in a
community.

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer
<artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:
> My guess is that linear thinking is a product of a certain sort of
> education, a certain sort of mind and often simplistic.
> To move directly to the simplest and most efficient solution to a
> problem generally requires an extensive knowledge base, talent and the
> ability to put the right elements together correctly.
> It then appears to the observer that the solution was simple all along
> and that there was a linear progress to the solution.
>
> GRAF wrote:
>> The ability to think simply or probably more accurately in a linear
>> fashion is an art, for the most part, long lost in this culture.
>> It seems the more education the less linear the thought process.
>>
>> Complexity becomes compulsive.
>>
>> Tis a gift to be simple....
>>
>> Mike Graf
>>
>> Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
>>> The dumber we are, the more complexity is required to solve a problem. pf
>>>
>>>
>>>
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Bruce
NJ

The total lack of evidence is the surest sign that the conspiracy is working.