Defying Logic
I’m sure these existential incidents of his childhood fed his desire to slay anything that blocked his path to success. To be poor, black and fatherless in a hostile white world was probably his first knowledge of the human condition. Fortunately, with the help of others, James found a stable adoptive home and used sports as an outlet to take out his frustration, favoring basketball and football.
Since we have come this far on our tour of Lebron’s early life let’s go one step further. What about his superior sport genes? His athletic genius; Is he some kind of mutation in basketball history? Fans are globally awed by the sweep and grandeur of his moves on the court. Is he somehow prewired to dominate his sport? Does his talent represent blind chance or accident?
Then there is the specter of genetic determinism: the idea that Lebron is merely the product of his genes. I don’t think we will ever be able to describe a genius solely in terms of their genes; because there has to be a spiral dimension to Lebron’s genius.
Charles Townes, a Nobel Prize—-winning physicist and chief inventor of the laser beam, recently noted that” to think that science already knows enough to be certain there are no mystical forces is illogical.”