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The Allure of the “Natural” (with Alan Levinovitz)

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Is There a Difference Between Spontaneity and Authenticity?

In classical china, the term suran literally means self. But it's that which is so of itself is opposed to that which is modified by humans. And i think the idea is something like, how could humans improve on the spontaneous forms of organization? Look around. It is the kind of a god's answer to job, right? Did you make the whales? did you make the mountains? Did you ori you put the stars in the sky? Well, if we didn't do any of those things, how could we improve on that? Surely any intervention is likely to be bad. We would do better to understand genius not as the absence of needing ferance or editing but something

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