I want to add, that many great ideas are identified as such years after they have been formulated. Sometimes only the historical context makes an idea great. Ka

I want to add, that many great ideas are identified as such years after they have been formulated. Sometimes only the historical context makes an idea great. Kafka died in 1924, years before the NS regime took over, which bureaucracy he illustrated so brilliantly. All his writings were published after his death. So the ideas clearly were present before, they just stayed unnoticed and only in hindsight became famous for the fact, that there were indeed people who knew better before and the catastrophe could have been avoided. The past is always glorified or at least seen as more significant, because only these parts stick. Its harder to spot a significant piece in real time, because the signal to noise is much worse.