Conceptual Economy

Ideas, if not analyses, are never truly or singularly of an individual. There is something of a distributed communications “field” and what is conceptually or technically intelligible, useful or valuable is adaptively filtered and percolates through it. The value of a good (or great) idea is amplified by the presence and persistence of less-than-stellar ideas as background noise. It is a conceptual economy and we, as much as our ideas, are all tokens within it.