Just Kicking It Around.

I got this from my friend, Tracey, tonight:

Intellectuals solve problems; Geniuses prevent them.

Albert Einstein.

On The Einstein Quote:

Intellectuals do frequently solve problems. Just as frequently they make them worse. Thinking can be over-done, like a good piece of meat on the fire too long, and turned to cinders in one's mouth. Just look at the profession of law. On the other hand you have Bill Maher.

Geniuses, while indeed having the ability to see far ahead and prevent problems, also would sometimes do well to look behind themselves first, to understand better what has preceded them, before they become a problem, themselves. This happens most often, when radical mental errancy is mistaken for genius and followed down a dangerous path. That would be the Marx Brothers as opposed to Karl Marx?

And then you have George W. Bush. Sort of spoils the whole discussion, doesn't it