Keith
Keith Hudson, Saltford, England http://allisstatus.wordpress.com
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The further back we go in history, the higher is the social class in
which innovators originate. This is because innovators need
leisure-time more than anything else. They need to be able to
temporarily marry their basic obsession with a variety of other daily
qualia without chronic distractions such as having to earn a living
or to carry out other time-consuming responsibilities. Also, the
overwhelming majority of innovators are always young people below the
age of 30 or 35 -- that is, before their frontal lobes become too
networked with conventional notions. This means that, in modern
times, the growing numbers of unemployed young in the advanced
countries who, unlike their equivalents in the Great Depression of
the 1930s don't necessarily "know their place" in the social
hierarchy, will undoubtedly become a new large source of potential
innovation, particularly with the Internet being more or less freely
available for specialist self-education and for propagation of new
ideas. And innovations are not always beneficial to society or
governments either. Indeed, some of the cleverest ones might be
motivated by grievance. As the credit-crunch of 2008 continues to
spiral downwards, either to wider economic depression or currency
catastrophe, politicians had better become much more widely aware of
the status needs of others than to remain too preoccupied with their
own ambitions and yabooing one another like boys in a school playground.
