Rowson's core complaint is that society has built no institutional infrastructure to recognize generalist excellence the way it certifies specialist expertise. Calling someone a 'generalist' implicitly signals a lack of credentials rather than a different kind of mastery. Until generalism acquires status, it will keep being dismissed as dilettantism, even when the work it produces—synthesis, translation, cross-domain insight—is exactly what turbulent times require.
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