"Man's first intelligent act, " said the Master, "was standardisation. He standardised sounds (after gestures) for representations of ideas."
"That certainly was a great step forwards Master, for socio I mean. But was there also a personal effect?"
"Indeed, and a far more profound one. He started thinking, handling his ideas with it. It made his ideation a thousandfold more efficient."
"Had it any reverse effects too Master?"
"Of course it had. From then on, the control of others (See Spencer, Essays) and barter, swindle, miseducation, conceit, started in earnest. Superstition and Stupiditty, then, found words to accomodate them."
"Is this standardisation perhaps one of a pair, is there an opposite to it?"
"The opposite of standardisation in words and thoughts is creativity,
the 'Lateral Think' of DeBono, the occurrence of inventiveness, of Eureka-, or
Aha- experience. Both of the pair are
part and parcel of socio, yet, the second, creativity, is very
sparse, but gives greatest pleasure. It needs quiet and let go."