Rebecca,

I grew up around horse people, mostly east coast horse racing and they were pretty detached from nature. That’s why I mostly just stuck with working with the horses and didn’t try climbing the ladder, being a trainer, etc. As the goals, winning race, money, etc, seemed so inconsequential.

We are all very limited in what we can spend our time on and what has made humanity so technically proficient has been the tendency to specialize, yet what is lacking is a clear, overall view of what is going on. A generalist perspective.

As I like to point out, there is a reason why the people running armies are called generals and specialist is about one rank above private.

Yet think how the people who would be good generalists would develop. they would be the ones as children who would be the most curious about everything and easily distracted by whatever caught their attention. Presumably to grow up and sense how all the diversity fits into larger processes and what ties it all together.

Yet these would be the ones diagnosed as attention deficient and medicated, to focus on whatever box they are supposed to fit into.

Though back in our day, it was just self medicating and avoiding school.

Meanwhile I’m off to be a worker in the little bizarre farm/used farm equipment, lumber and hay dealer/race course manager/horse trainer I’m currently working for.

Regards,

John