Spoken like an intellectual (not an insult - an observation). Could John Carmack explain binary space partitioning in an interesting way that made Joe Average

Spoken like an intellectual (not an insult - an observation). Could John Carmack explain binary space partitioning in an interesting way that made Joe Average feel like he got it? Most likely yes. But would Joe Average really "get it"? Could he make a meaningful judgement as to whether some other piece of software implementing BSP was more or less a copy of some other piece? (just using BSP as an example - not a good one) I sincerely doubt it. As the saying goes, a little knowledge is dangerous. Look at the number of people who claim that global warming is a myth because they saw a snowstorm last week. Its fashionable, and feels liberal, to claim that we're all much the same, but we're not. John Carmack is what many would call a genius, who can conceive of things that are simply beyond the ken of the bulk of society. Sure those people have other skills and virtues - but epecting them to make rational decisions about complex technical matters while two opposing sets of attorneys bark at them is...ridiculous.