Lots of people talk about these things, but I found it interesting to find it in science fiction from the 1970s.

It was a revelation, a liberation. Physicists, mathematicians, astronomers, logicians, biologists, all were here at the University, and they came to him or he went to them, and they talked, and new worlds were born of their talking. It is of the nature of idea to be communicated, written, spoken, done. The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.

— Ursula K. LeGuin, _The Dispossessed_, pp. 72, New York: HarperPaperbacks, 1974.

The entire book is interesting, although not a satisfying ending. (Welcome to pre-Star Wars SF.) Dealing with a utopian society based on a future colony of Earth and their Communist and Capitalist (think UK) counterparts on the home planet, it raises interesting issues, including the problems inherent to having no leaders. Recommended