Whether it is an aphorism, adage or maxim, the phrase "The devil is in the details" anticipated Malcolm Gladwell's new book Outliers. But as such things go Malcolm Gladwell's labor in Outliers is another addition to the ubiquitous exercise of preaching to the choir.
Outliers is the classic eureka or light bulb moment made public, a nerdish reflection on the human condition as if after millennia of human empiricism, critical-thought has now matured and it's face is Malcolm Gladwell with it's expression the book Outliers.
Outliers postulates, human success is a result of ones environmental situation. To quote Gladwell..."It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't" [Outliers]
Didn't Hillary Clinton premise her ideological struggle with the Phillistines of the Republican Party on "It takes a village to raise a child"? So where has Malcolm Gladwell been hasn't Materialism, dialectical historical materialism already accounted for this intellectualism Outliers presents?
It takes an extraordinary display of arrogance, a presumption of sorts that subjective discovery accounts for existential-dialectics and with Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell is at home with, I think therefore I am.
By Apropos
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
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