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If every piece of knowledge is only six degrees separated from the other, the point of departure from which the exploration of knowledge begins, the center, is of utmost importance. Such a point of departure is not ideally the current center of thought, the landscape of which is too well-known, in fact so well-known that it makes us blind to the very nature of that landscape. Compare this phenomenon to the environment you live in, with which you are so familiar that it becomes entirely unremarkable. It will take a stranger from a foreign land to describe your landscape accurately and put into perspective. It is the same for knowledge.
Immersed in the mainstream we do no longer perceive the illusionary riddles of Babel, we no longer lose ourselves in the labyrinthine constructions, dead end streets and small alley ways of the mind.
Shall I teach you art history through the 23,500 books that have been written on Picasso or shall I introduce you to Picasso by way of contemporary artist Kubin?
Shall I tell you about music and start with Abba or shall I start with Larry Levan, we will encounter Abba along the way.
Shall I teach you about film by way of Scorsese or shall I start with Corman, we will pick up Scorsese en route to the town square.
The content is what it is, we will not argue with popular, the center however, will be placed outside of the gravitational powers of the circle, in order to study that circle.
See also
- Mon rêve familier
- Knowledge, notability and centricity
- six degrees
- Shrink and expand wikipedia
- Shrink: sports, politics, hard sciences
- Reduce everything to love, art and philosophy
- Expand: the Category:Canon and keywords
