After reading that I sat here for a minute and racked my brain as to who my childhood 'hero' might be. I can't remember a single person.
It's amusing to me how much of intellectual work deals in a currency of status. Getting/giving credit for things appears to be the Prime Directive, at least among the observers. We've now graduated to not only stressing who is responsible but what demographic groups they are a part of.
Now, it could be that the real deal groundbreaking folks don't give a damn. Tip o' the hat to those people.
After reading that I sat here for a minute and racked my brain as to who my childhood 'hero' might be. I can't remember a single person.
It's amusing to me how much of intellectual work deals in a currency of status. Getting/giving credit for things appears to be the Prime Directive, at least among the observers. We've now graduated to not only stressing who is responsible but what demographic groups they are a part of.
Now, it could be that the real deal groundbreaking folks don't give a damn. Tip o' the hat to those people.