Thoughts on Various Subjects

"When a true genius apppears in the world, you may know him by this sign: that the dunces are all in confederacy against him"

This statement is witty because it says that dumb people hate smart people. This statement shows how people can come into the world revealing strange ideas that no one has ever heard before and no one will pay them any attention because they have been brought up thinking something and are so used to it that they dont want to accept new ideas. In the 17th century there were disputes on religion. New people came in and started developing their own ideas about god and because of what they were brought up to believe some people were discusted at these new ideas. A lot of new individuals present their ideas and at first they may be looked down upon but eventuall, maybe not in a year or twenty years, people will understand what they were thinking. Even hitler is seen as a genious. Some of his ideas on how to carry out his dreams were a little extreme but he still had ideas contradictory to normallity and people didnt like it.