Eric Zuesse
Bill Gates was interviewed in the Thursday June 25th Financial Times,
about global warming investments, and he said some remarkably stupid
things, but explaining what he said requires a lot of intelligence; so,
maybe what he said isn’t actually that stupid. Might he be an idiot
savant? Perhaps there’s a deeper truth here.
After all, idiot savants should be
respected in the areas where they have their gift, but not outside it.
Occasionally, distinguishing between an idiot savant and a genius can be
hard to do.
For example, at the beginning of the 20th
Century, Henry Ford was considered to be a genius of industry and of
technology, and he was sometimes America’s wealthiest person, but he was
also a bigot, and
no one can be stupider than that; so, he was just an idiot savant,
after all. He was additionally famous as a