Viral Impressions of Gifted Minds

Gifted minds share a commonality; they affect those who come into contact with them. Great thinkers of history, those gifted minds we honor and emulate, pass their concepts and impressions on to our individual psyches. Are these conveyances viral applications? If they are then we in the Fourth Estate can help effect curative alterations of their affect through insertions of the anti-viral intellect.

Theories on intelligence have evolved in kind with the development of communication and Memes. We know some viruses produce positive results in their human hosts. So, the peppering of gifted minds within global populaces could be viral in nature. The belief coined through recorded history that stated the ability to become “smart” wasn’t attainable by every human being has been transformed to modernist thought and the Theory of Multiple Intelligence (MI). MI states intelligences can be nurtured, improved upon, and are innate to all humankind. According to MI theory, postulated by Professor Howard Gardner of Harvard, there are eight separate intelligences maintaining residence in every humanoid psyche. These intelligences are entrenched members of the mind-club from "inception's conception" onward.

The linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist intelligences hail the advents in our fecundations. Synergism, a prevalent term of the 90’s, also applies to intelligences. When one of the eight intelligences progresses all of the remaining seven acclimatize to that maturation. Intelligences, it appears, perform in collaboration with one another rather than in isolation. This finding mocks yet another myth of history of the intellect in humankind. We envision gifted thinkers to be isolationists given to crazed episodes and mad scientist syndromes. How many times have we heard the adage, “He (or she) is really intelligent, but just doesn’t have any common sense.” The insinuation that the gifted mind, though conceptionally astounding, is unable to function in the mediocrity of daily life is widely accepted. We seem to feel poorly for intellectual beings, we tend to view the genius as outcaste curiosities.

We are viewing human intellect, collectively, in terms of social order rather than cognitive development. Societally, the animal sense of our humanity may just be in tune with the viral capacity of genius. Consequently we elect distant reverence that ensures reposition in our social conveyances where we can maintain comfort zones. If we all assimilated and synergized with the knowledge of the gifted we would then answer to the higher laws of self-awareness. We appear to be uncomfortable with introspective self-analysis and the resultant progression. An adage suiting to this manner of thinking is, “Ignorance is bliss.”

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