You have been given the gift of moving to a new planet with primitive intelligent life and are in a position to influence the future of their inhabitants by choosing and taking only one of each of the following:
1.A philosophers entire work
2.A country’s entire history
3.An artists entire masterpieces
4.A musicians entire work
5.A writers entire literature.
As always, support your work with reasons.
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As Ship’s Librarian, with limited storage space, I’ll see if I can figure out one of each category.
Philosopher: Alfred Korzybski (General Semantics)
If he doesn’t quality, I guess John Dewey.
I want to go with Whitehead but he baffles too many ppl,
even though I think he’s probably be ideal.
[I’m going with the primitive angle here]
Country History: Greece. What HAVEN’T they been through?
Masterpieces: Spain, no question.
Musician: Phillip Glass. Just Glassworks alone will make them think they’re doing something significant in building a society.
Good creativity booster. Not my favorite or least favorite musician, but
See: General Semantics (programming) and John Dewey (pragmatism) –
it just makes sense from that angle.
Writer: Ray Bradbury. The futurist who wasn’t a futurist. Not that he’s
my favorite sci-fi author or least favorite, just a practical matter for
a number of social, political, scientific reasons.
if I had more time, I could come up with better answers.
But it’s a top-of-the-head and the ship is probably gonna launch soon
and we don’t have much time, so at least I can recreate a futuristic America that doesn’t exist yet with a slightly better sense of historical continuity and some of the mind-bending Spanish philosophical influence embedded within its artistry.