When cultivating relationships with intellectual ancestors (thinkers and doers who inspire us but aren't genealogically connected), it's important to recognize that movements are not reducible to individual lifetimes; this perspective helps mitigate disappointment when ancestors don't align with our expectations, as movements extend beyond any single person's contribution.
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If movements only were made up of the people [music] that get written down in history, they would never be movements.
Those would be a handful of people. So, I mitigate my own ancestral disappointment when I encounter a thinker who isn't where [music] I wanted them to be by realizing that the movement that I'm invested in is not reducible to their individual lifetime.
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