Opal
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The word genius is part of the history of ideas. And ideas occur in a time and place and are mediated by the media. And when the media change, the ideas change.
Very few of us can see what is happening in front of us, while most of us see with 20/20 vision with hindsight. And genius hoves into view when we can see genius from the outside. Everyone and their dog can now see genius.
It takes no genius to see genius today.
One can behold or conceive of a trait without possessing it. Perhaps when there are no more phenomena to map, nor concentrations of power to access, "genius" will be a meaningless descriptor. As long as exploitable structures, fundamental mysteries, and variations in "intelligence" exist, though, there will always be those exceptionally and unpredictably capable, whom we will label "geniuses".