Content may be a myth, but then so are people. At least mythical people, and they seem to be the ones who write most of the content we read.

Concentrating on people – is good and bad. It gets us away from some stuff, and right slap bang into the middle of some other not so nice stuff. Scientific peer review, and indeed most scientific communities are corrupted by the short-cuts taken when assessing ideas – especially when they don’t understand those ideas. You mentioned Max Planck in this context. I think you were unfair on this mythical chap. he was judging an idea – not a person. Einstein was not a person of significance, his idea was.

When human endeavor in the sphere of ideas, concentrates on people, and not abstractions, we can lose a great deal, and get into dangerous areas. People are important, the judgement of character and incentive is important. But so is process. So is structure, and so are the ideas. These constructs do fit into the “Community is the Curriculum” – but that is precisely because the community is not simply the people that make it up.