ibshambat2004@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote...
> Charles Babbage invented the world's first computer decades before the
> Eniac. But because the Queen thought that he had a bad personality,
> England lost a great historic op****tunity, and the 20th century became
> the American and the Russian century instead of an English century.
>
> The people who come up with worthwhile ideas and inventions do so
> because they think in original manner. That gets them usually branded
> as crazy people or bad people by people whose concept of sanity or
> moral good is indiscriminate assimilation to whatever happens to be
> the groupthink of the particular place and time.
>
> And yet it is to these original thinkers that normal people owe all
> they have. from personal computer to representative democracy.
>
> You propagate psychological fascism, you lose your sources of
> innovation and damn your nations to drift and decline.
>
> Atlas, shrug on the people who have such convictions.
>
> And find other places to take to the sky.
I'm trying to think how many historical geniuses would be forcibly drugged
today. Isaac Newton sounds like he was bipolar and though he had serious
problems his obsessiveness led to a revolution in scientific thinking.
Today a young Isaac Newton would be harassed by his school counselor who
would refer him to Dr. Phil who would drug him and shout slogans at him to
discourage his silly obsession with that gravity thing. And poor Isaac
really does need treatment because Dr. Phil says so, and he should know
because he's so smart and scientific with his Ph.-****ing-D. in astrology.
