Amidst the flurry of electronics that discomposes our lives, I find content reading forgotten heroines and heroes (well, forgotten to my many limitations).
There are almost no ‘new’ ideas, I mean radically, authentically novel. Yes, there are modern interpretations of recent data and derivative techno-gizmos to breed consumption……but imaginative insight? Sparse. But that’s not discouraging, it’s exhilarating. A reason to study and think and collaborate.
Example: Who uncannily predicted the rise of nationalism, tyranny, and 20th C despotism abysmally tied to science and technology? Who was marginalized by the entrenched academics of his era (few of whom are seriously studied today BTW)? Who wrote perhaps the definitive study of the Italian Renaissance?
Who penned this perfect truth in the latter 19th C – “Our intellect, no matter how independent of the past it may feel in matters of science and technology, is ever-renewed and consecrated by the consciousness of its connection with the mind of the remotest times and civilizations.”
Jacob Burckhardt, 1818-1897, Swiss-German historian of culture and art. Worth knowing him, just my opinion. Him, and hundreds of past others.
Two attachments from our excellent colleagues re: neuroprotection and neuropromotion of the newly born living in NICUs. Not unproven invasive technology and medications, but rather humane, organic, historic habits. Smarts/Grit/Love, the real CQI ‘Triple Aim”.
Joe Kaempf, MD
District Oregon Representative
Portland, OR
Volume 13, Number 23