Re: [DMCForum] Tilley... was Re: evaporator hell...

[Farrar Hudkins <fhudkins@xxxxxxx>]

ryanpwright wrote:

> Yes, I was aware of that. Tesla's work has always intrigued me. I only
> wish someone with even half his talent would have picked up where he
> left off on some of his more interesting inventions and theories.

<soapbox>

The problem with people like Tesla and Charles Steinmetz (not to mention 
many of the composers I've studied over the years -- Beethoven, 
Schumann, Mahler, et al) is that they were regarded as "eccentrics" in 
their time -- OK, not a problem in itself, but the problem is that they 
would would probably be referred to as "mentally ill" in our time. 
Possession of genius generally tips the balance of the other things in 
one's life. Nowadays a true creative genius is spotted not as a 
brilliant and creative brain but an unbalanced one, and is medicated or 
put into a mental home -- or both. We may have people with talent, but 
true genius is a mind functioning uniquely, and people don't like 
uniqueness in these times.

</soapbox>

--Farrar

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