A Poor Fool's Thoughts

Within my minuscule social circle, I know of some people whom I easily label brilliant. People whose brains function at such as level that we average humanozoids can only gasp and make unflattering cavemen-like noises at, creating the age old sounds of appreciation like "oohs" and "ahhs" of applause.

These brilliant people care not for the restrictions of the society, yet they are by far the most constrained. Because of their sheer brilliance, their mere existence and influence is a threat to any old fool who comes along and pledges her loyalty (undeniably the most readily abused power in the world) to them. Most geniuses either perform at most average in mass grading tests that require more hard work than hard intellect to ace, and continue to be so throughout the rest of their lives unless they can channel their brilliance in a way that is socially acceptable.

Its the cold truth that we are not ready to welcome geniuses, only geniuses who can contribute to society. The world at its current state has no place for young Edisons, and deals with them by labelling them highly volatile, or at most mentally retarded. It is the biggest hypocrisy of all; to group both advanced and under-developed minds together simply because we do not understand their nature. But the underlying reason for our ostracism of the highly talented is their own power to manipulate character to get what they want. Character is what society builds in order to mould citizens whose actions become predictable, who are able to live in harmony in a herd that continually moves forward, away from danger, never straying left nor right.

And so, such irony it is that what most people define as 'unique' is something that everyone has, character. There is safety in numbers, placating the masses with a rosy definition of themselves instead of acknowledging the unattainable brilliance of the minority geniuses. Here is the age of democracy-- power to the masses, power to the norm, power to quantity over quality. Democracy which robs the rich in intellect of their right to world dominion, to give the poorer fools happiness.