Genius and Culture

But genius does not need to be isolated as stereotype. It could be the norm. One could argue that the emergence of genius coincides with a dissatisfaction with the constraints that culture places on us. Paradoxically, this very dissatisfaction would not have come about if the genius in question was not present in culture to begin with. Culture, instead of acting as catalyst, inhibits free and revolutionary thought, and the genius is one who has realized this, or as a necessity has had to realize this in order to give free reign to his conceptual process. Therefore, he is the quintessential loner figure, not out of any vaunted sense of vanity, but out of sheer necessity. His thoughts have resulted as an outpouring of sheer desire for the Real transferred onto a technique or a material obsession. From this we can conclude that genius would be the norm, if not for the inhibiting and restraining effects of culture. In other words, the genius is the purest expression of the human once he has extricated himself from the ineffectual rudiments of culture.