Our insistence on excellence and conformity is eliminating Genius and thought.
I’m sure we can all put names into this pot - and there is much much more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKeMIWVOnbo
Right now we have all sorts of things we need people to say NO too !
Please discuss
New York Times ;
"…Here are some things that you will hear when you sit down to dinner with the vanguard of the Intellectual Dark Web: There are fundamental biological differences between men and women. Free speech is under siege. Identity politics is a toxic ideology that is tearing American society apart. And we’re in a dangerous place if these ideas are considered “dark.”
I was meeting with Sam Harris, a neuroscientist; Eric Weinstein, a mathematician and managing director of Thiel Capital; the commentator and comedian Dave Rubin; and their spouses in a Los Angeles restaurant to talk about how they were turned into heretics. A decade ago, they argued, when Donald Trump was still hosting “The Apprentice,” none of these observations would have been considered taboo…"
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/opinion/intellectual-dark-web.html