Connection: Collaboration then and now

In "The Televisionary," one of the themes that is apparent throughout is; collaboration is more successful than induvidualism. In this essay, Philo Farnsworth is depicted as the epitome of a Romantic Idealist. This means that he believes that you can succeed on your own. Farnsworth is proven wrong when he is defeated in the race to create the first television by the RCA Corporation. He believed, "Of you had the vision and you made the vision work, then the invetion was yours." This wasn't true because the idea of the television did not belong to one person, in fact two others had the idea and failed to create the mechanical television along with the RCA corporation, which had an entire crew of inventors to work on it. This shows that visionaries cannot succeed without the inventor or the creative mind. This is very true in society and politics today. Every step in a career of a successful politician is made with collaboration. The politician is really the visionary and his crew are the inventors. When a politician runs for a position he or she usually follows what they are told by their campaign managers and staff. This is because their managers are experts in different political topics. The RCA prevailed over Philo because they employed a crew of inventors that worked together to create and finalize the idea of the television. If Philo would have accepted the invitation to join the team at RCA his family would still be living off his fortune today and he would not have died a depressed, unaccomplished man.
""No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.""--H.E. Luccock