The Genius Famine: Why We Need Geniuses, Why They're Dying Out, Why We Must Rescue Them (Paperback)

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The Genius Famine: Why We Need Geniuses, Why They're Dying Out, Why We Must Rescue Them (Paperback)

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Geniuses are rare and exceptional people. The majority of the great ideas, discoveries and inventions of human history, which have allowed the development of civilization itself, were the products of geniuses.


A genius combines extremely high intelligence with a unworldly, intuitive personality. Geniuses will seldom fit-into normal society, they will seldom want to. And we shouldn't want them to, because it is their unusual and socially-difficult nature which drives geniuses to come up with original ideas, and solutions to otherwise unsolvable problems.


But modern society has been hit by a genius famine. There are ever-fewer geniuses and, to make matters worse, modern society has become actively hostile to those few geniuses we still have.
The Genius Famine explores the nature of genius, why the genius famine has happened, how the famine will lead to the decline of civilization, and what we can and should do to overcome it.

Product Details ISBN: 9781908684608
ISBN-10: 1908684607
Publisher: University of Buckingham Press
Publication Date: July 29th, 2016
Pages: 232
Language: English