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Where Geniuses Hide Today - by Tomas Pueyo

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Where are today’s Michelangelos?

Where are today’s Michelangelos? Goyas? Shakespeares? Cervantes? Goethes? Montaignes? Pushkins? Dostoevskys? Balzacs? Mozarts? Where are our Einsteins, our Darwins, our Maxwells, our Newtons, our Aristotles, our Socrates? Why is there no more music as acclaimed as Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony? Paintings as important as Las Meninas or the Mona Lisa? Why are there no more discoveries that rewrite textbooks, like the Theory of Gravity or Thermodynamics? Dozens of thinkers complain that there are no more geniuses. Most just don’t know where to find them. The most illustrious philosophers were…

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