Alterative hypothesis: the reason we see fewer artistic geniuses is a result of the winner-takes-all nature of the arts. Before that happened at a regional leve

Alterative hypothesis: the reason we see fewer artistic geniuses is a result of the winner-takes-all nature of the arts. Before that happened at a regional level - one country had its geniuses, another country had its geniuses. Now, it happens globally. All the world's attention is on just a few people in each artistic field, and those are the ones we think of as being the geniuses. The rest, those who in earlier times would have been considered geniuses, are ignored. The Internet promised space for a fat tail of creativity, and has enabled the opposite.