Great Thinkers and the One-Tracked Paradigm

Posted on March 6, 2008
Filed Under Fake Culture, Society |

Every great thinker or inventor always seems to find themselves up against a wall of resistance. This wall is generally formed by contemporaries of which ever subject the thinker / inventor is creating new ground in. Some people call it a conspiracy, and where ever there is money and / or power involved that no doubt has elements of truth to it. However that said, it is also human nature to resist change, we always pin our knowledge of reality upon the experts of our times. It is because of this that the next generation of ‘experts’ are rarely recognized until they have proven themselves again and again.

Socrates, Galileo, Newton and even Einstein faced this issue time and time again. For those in the earlier centuries their persistence in attempting to break new ground ultimately manifested in their being put to death (directly or indirectly)…the same fate would have also almost certainly held true for Newton had the full extent of his research been known during his time.

Nowadays as always we are playing catch up with the great minds and ideas that were developed long ago. Nikola Tesla was perhaps one of the greatest inventors ever known, yet because his theories and ideas were so far ‘out there’ he ultimately became viewed as a ‘crackpot’. Tesla was the creator of AC current, the radio, radar, and many other technologies that have shaped todays world. He also developed a form of fuelless technology, that harnessed ‘free’ energy from the atmosphere; what he called cosmic rays. This wasn’t reliant upon the sun because it would even generate power at night. Tesla planned upon creating many free energy towers and disseminating free energy to the world. The energy could be transmitted through the air without use of wires, and electrical devices would only need a simple aerial to receive power.

Of course this technology never took off, and even today it is apparently impossible to gain a patent on this design.

This sort of one hundred year old ‘futuristic’ (by modern standards) technology aside, it is almost always baffling to realize that every modern piece of technology we touch is completely dependent upon the developments of an ‘obscure’ inventor. Tesla changed the world more than any other inventor…yet his name is all but erased from contemporary science.