Posted on 04/27/2017 10:57:38 AM PDT by C19fan
Much-hyped new National Geographic series Genius chronicles the life of Albert Einstein. The first episode premiered last night and right from its opening scene, in which the groundbreaking theoretical physicist has extra-marital sex with his office assistant, we know we’re probably not going to be subjected to long-winded digressions on the theory of relativity.
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Its not relevant to his science discoveries. Turning his life into sensationalist clap trap.
It’s relevant to who he was. He even recorded it for posterity for us by writing about it. It’s not like it was a big secret, pretty much everybody who knew him knew. There’s a 100% effective way to not have one’s history of being a scumbag wind up in a bio-pick about you: don’t have a history of being a scumbag. He failed that test, over and over and over again, bragging about it in writing. HE turned his life into sensationalist clap trap, they’re just admitting it.
No. It makes her a victim. As is any woman who has sex with a more powerful man. Except in the the case of Monica Lewinsky. Than you are a temptress taking down a good hearted Southern boy.
I have known that he was a genius for years. Ever since I learned that when he divorced his first wife, he convinced her to take the promise that when he won the Nobel Prize (sometime in the future), he would give her that money instead of her taking alimony.
Like most people he was somewhere in between -- or maybe a little bit of both. You can get an emotional reaction playing one extreme off against the other, but neither side has the whole picture.
Remember when Princess Diana died. People on line went crazy mourning her. Then the people criticizing the emotional outpouring went too far in the other direction. If you got sick of all the weepers, eventually you got sick of the cynics as well.
The Internet (and modern culture, I guess) is like that -- always careening from one extreme to the other.
Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!
I watched the first episode last night and found the character completely unlikable.
Do Geniuses have a problem understanding life in society with normal people? It would seem, from this dramatization, and others like Amadeus, or Immortal Beloved, that “great Men” are irascible, contemptuous of the rights of others, and have no respect for any kind of order. It seems to be “OK” that they think that laws are made for the “little people”.
The scene where he and (one of his wives) attempt to emigrate to the USA during a time when War was looming, communism was getting inroads because of the Great Depression, and Einstein had contempt for “Bourgeois Values”, made the American Official look like a boorish, bigoted idiot for trying to protect our country. If, on the other hand, Einstein was being carefully vetted because he was Jewish, it would have been a different story. From this depiction though, that does not appear to be the case.
I could not help but feel that an agenda was being promoted in this dramatization. I could be wrong, but in any case, I did not enjoy the first dreary episode nearly as much as I thought I would.
Oh Well.
I don’t LOL often but that was a great post!
Lead in to finish.
Thanks...
Oh, no.. Not the uterus cannon!
Have much of an axe to grind?
Your diatribe reeks of resentment.
Who cares if Einstein had sexual escapades. That by the way doesn’t make him sexist. It confirms him as a genius who was human.
I would boo you for that but I can not boo and laugh at the same time.
“... they need to destroy Einstein to degrade white male scientists.
“Their specials have beautiful photography but the eco & global warming messaging poisons everything they touch. People of the Liberal persuasion confuse their personal passion and ideology with science and peer reproducability.
“Facts are made up, data cherry picked and massaged but because the ecowarriors are loud and passionate everyone else should get in line.”
Nice summation.
A week or so ago, I watched a PBS documentary on Leonardo Da Vinci, “The Man Who Saved Science.” I wondered why they were questioning his originality and his genius, until less than fifteen minutes into the program they claimed that the idea for a parachute came from a muslim, and then regularly every fifteen minutes they mentioned muslim inventions. Like clockwork. Not terribly subtle.
... and not just muslims. In their eagerness to denigrate Leonardo, they stooped to things like this:
“This undated notebook by another person is from roughly the same era as Leonardo, and shows a flotation device similar to his sketch of a life preserver. Could Leonardo have seen this? Historians say yes. He had access to many books.”
Didn’t even have the decency to prove that the notebook preceded Leonardo’s sketch, any more than bothering to prove that CO2 rise precedes temperature rise or follows it. Science is no longer being taught or employed — those who use the scientific method have to learn it alone.
By distorting history they are committing a crime against humanity, substituting lies for the truths that allow us to make effective judgements, plans, and choices.
If the news tells only the stories “they” want us to hear and children are taught in school only the “created facts that fit the narrative” how long will we be a free Nation. The whisteblowers are being assassinated or silenced.
But the Trump train is coming down the track and a very outspoken uncowed man is laying some truths upon us. We need to rise up & meet him halfway. PBS & NEA can’t be defunded soon enough for me.
You are absolutely right. The scientific method is being debased by cheaters in pursuit of grant money.
Junk science & consensus is being substituted for rigorous experiments and evaluations.
Emotional grandstanding is the standard not the null hypothesis and students are not being given the logical and statistical tools to evaluate for themselves the legitimacy of the conclusions with which they are presented.
Einstein’s cousin was his 2nd wife.
Ping to post 10.
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