Einstein was a Relative Genius

I'm about knock to an institution
of the the twentieth century.

(That's not how I was
going to word it this
morning. Oh well...)

Einstein oh Einstein,
what shall we do with thee?

Today I consider you
a brilliant mind trapped
in the times you lived in.

I guess I really don't
understand why I should
hold you in such high
esteem. I know about
your atomic bomb and that
theory of yours, but I'm
having trouble placing
whatever else you may
have achieved in your day.

Maybe there's more,
probably, but what I'm
really getting at is
that I've not really been
all that impressed with
your thinking outside
of science. You didn't
seem so smart then.

"Unlimited competition
leads to a waste of labor,
and to the crippling of
the social consciousness
and individuals" etc.

I don't know, maybe it was
your experience and maybe
it was that you really were
that darn smart, but I tend
to think of competition as
better than the opposite,
despite that a completely
unregulated system of
filtering new writers has
basically screwed me over
for the past ten years or so.

I think that individuals
being individuals
and contributing as individuals
can't possibly be a bad thing,
and it is our basic lack
of understanding that constantly
gets in our way.

Capitalism, democracy, a directed
sense of chaos, that's the thing
for me. Call me irresponsible,
but I think the individual
is always at the heart of
the best society. If you cannot
comprehend the one, you certainly
won't be able to grasp the many.

So, Einstein, you're not
so bright in my book.