The super child stands apart from the rest of us, whether it be a highly accomplished ballerina at the age of 14 or a 13 year old computer genius. Super children are somehow different. To some, the secrets rests in the deepest recesses in the human brain. Yet there are methods already known that can reshape the minds of children … Is it possible that more such super children can be created? In Search of s5e14 … Super Children, History 1980
From great thinkers to revolutionary inventors to brilliant artists, geniuses that use their mysterious powers to shape the course of human history … Is genius a special quality that only a select few are born with? Or can it be unlocked in anyone’s brain at any time with the right key? The UnXplained with William Shatner s3e9: The Mystery of Genius, History 2022
I’m not a genius so I can’t do it alone. Jurgen Klopp, cited The End of the Storm, BBC 2022
Big bold dangerous ideas that would bring the world as we know it kicking and screaming into being. Bettany Hughes, Genius of the Modern World I: Marx, BBC 2016
Karl Marx dramatically transformed our world. ibid.
Marx’s childhood was on the face of it pretty idyllic and thoroughly bourgeois. ibid.
‘Under Capitalism we become “playthings of alien forces”. Almost like a monster we have created.’ ibid. Professor Jonathan Wolff
He witnessed the poverty of the urban classes. ibid.
In August 1849 Marx set sail for England. ibid.
The extraordinary influence of one of the most provocative and uncompromising thinkers of the nineteenth century. Bettany Hughes, Genius of the Modern World: Nietzsche II, BBC 2016
His philosophies were being distorted by a regime that stood for so much he loathed. Nietzsche was one of the most dangerous minds of the nineteenth century. ibid.
The murder of God: God is dead … Without a belief in God there is no authority for the moral values that underpin European society. ibid.
In 1886 a young physician established a small medical practice in Vienna … A radical and controversial new way of understanding our pasts and desires … would take the world by storm. Bettany Hughes, Genius of the Modern World III: Freud, BBC 2016
He started to analyse his own dreams … Freud’s book The Interpretation of Dreams offered a radical new understanding of human nature, with the subconscious a reservoir of repressed inner desires and irrational impulses. ibid.