What Is a Genius?

The word genius gets thrown around a lot, given at no one can actually agree on what a genius is. The mc arthur grants, the so called genius grants, have been awarded to more than 960 people so far. I think that we would probably have enough agreement that some of these people have something awfully special going on. So what's a genius anyway? Well here's what we did. Couple of hundred years ago, we started a generations long conspiracy to establish that a genius is someone who's not you. That a g us is somebody who can do something you can't do and operating on such a high level that it's for the other. We just needed them to do