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curiousl ([personal profile] curiousl) wrote2004-01-24 07:56 am

Real values

What do we value more in people - intellect? Ingenuity? Musical critique said yesterday something like "... he was musical genius, warm and generous person, but was he smart? was he an intellectual? He wasn't ...."

Somehow I can't remember the opposite comparison, case when a technical genius was accused in not being sensitive enough.

Does this mean a society values thinking people more than sensing? Is this reasonable?

(thoughts after Chahaturian classics concert in Tel Aviv)