How to Think Like a Genius 36-Revolutionaries
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Rick Rosner)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/03/01
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Society reacts to geniuses in a bad way because geniuses are revolutionary force in the society.
Rick Rosner: Life is itself conservative in that conservative means doing things as they have been done historically and evolution across its history on a year by year basis is punctuated equilibrium. There’s probably. Some nuances to it. It is species stay the same until something knocks them out of their niche and then there’s pretty rapid speciation and then things settle down again.
Well-adapted members of a species tend to want to keep things the way they are. It is that jocks versus nerds things. Healthy, physically attractive — those fittest animals tend to in normal times dominate, but the fittest animals aren’t necessarily the smartest animals and in fact it is kind of tends to b the other way around in that fittest animals being at home in their niche don’t have to think as much as the little scrambly animals who aren’t as well-adapted who have to do little tricks to try and gain some advantage.
So, society inasmuch as it is stable favors regular people, the majority, and stability and then geniuses aren’t as attractive, say, or people who are weird aren’t as attractive, and people who challenge institutions are going up against coalitions of people who formed partnerships.
Coming from an American perspective, you have the Chamber of Commerce, which has turned into a really creepy enforcer of ultra-right wing corporations and businesses should not have to pay taxes, shouldn’t have to pay minimum wage, conservatism.
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