A young Intel. officer, a software genius, was recently found dead in his prison cell. The details were banned from publication. According to the media he was a phenomenon in the field of computer from an early age.
One of the speculations is that his abilities have aroused the envy / anger of his superiors, his activity got suppressed. As a result, he planned revenge that would have harmed them, and the country. Perhaps he has even managed to carry out some of these plans. Anyway, he was arrested and jailed. Now he's dead (rip).
Besides the obvious tragedy of the loss of a young bright man, and the mystery (yet to be uncovered) וmposed on the case ׂׂ - the event brings to mind the concept of 'genius' (a person of extraordinary talent) and the list of geniuses among us - past and present.
There is a nice, little poem with the name 'The geniuses among us' by Marilyn L Taylor, Wisconsin poet laureate. She calls them 'high perennials above all the rest of us', 'bright testimonials to the scale of human possibility.' These people, according to her poem - 'take us by surprise every generation , with unprecedented notions and visions'.
So far, the great minds of the past ( like Einstein) and present (like Bill Gates) - have submitted the fruits of their genius, to the country, to the world, for the benefit of mankind. (As a matter of fact, not every invention was for the benefit of the world - the atomic bomb, for instance. R. Oppenheimer was "the father" of the Nuke.).
But times are changing. Perhaps these geniuses are beginning to feel underappreciated, even bullied. There's danger in this as the next stage could be something like: "either I rule or I destroy." Words like 'majority', 'democracy' might mean nothing to these bright people as the above notions already mean quite little to the average individual.
