How would you define genius? Can genius be defined? Should it be defined? What genius wants his or her genius to be defined? Is there not a creepy danger in defining genius out from under genius—in this “defining” becoming, first in the minds of definers, then in the minds of others, the “real” genius, the one that arbitrates all matters and questions of genius? What is so great about genius after all—what would the advantage be of cutting into the person or the thing, not simply finding this “holy grail” but questing after it, seeking to master the “natural world” wherein genius after all may above all want to hide, hide from exactly those who would scorch the earth if it meant at last gripping, grasping, controlling, and ultimately possessing the knowledge, the true knowledge, of genius?
Mini-Feature: Defining "Genius"
Mini-Feature: Defining "Genius"
How would you define genius? Can genius be defined? Should it be defined? What genius wants his or her genius to be defined? Is there not a creepy danger in defining genius out from under genius—in this “defining” becoming, first in the minds of definers, then in the minds of others, the “real” genius, the one that arbitrates all matters and questions of genius? What is so great about genius after all—what would the advantage be of cutting into the person or the thing, not simply finding this “holy grail” but questing after it, seeking to master the “natural world” wherein genius after all may above all want to hide, hide from exactly those who would scorch the earth if it meant at last gripping, grasping, controlling, and ultimately possessing the knowledge, the true knowledge, of genius?