An analogy can be made here to the famous case of Michael Servetus. Please note that I am not saying that Curtis Yarvin is the most important scientist of our e

An analogy can be made here to the famous case of Michael Servetus. Please note that I am not saying that Curtis Yarvin is the most important scientist of our era. I'm not suggesting that Curtis Yarvin is necessarily of unusual brilliance. He could easily be wrong regarding all of his political writing. This is just an analogy. Servetus had a lot of unusual ideas. He was a fantastic medical researcher, and, in 1533, he was the first to publish the idea that the heart was the center of a circulatory system, which pumped blood throughout the body. He also decided the Doctrine Of The Trinity (that the Father, the Son, and Holy Ghost were 3 aspects of one god) was entirely false. Therefore he was arrested and put to death, and thus Europe lost one of the greatest medical researchers of the 1500s. You might ask, what is the connection between the pulmonary system, and the the Doctrine Of The Trinity? There is none, save that creative people tend to have original ideas in several areas. If you want the benefits that derive from allowing creative people to have original thoughts, you have to also pay the price, and the price is that they sometimes have ideas that make people uncomfortable. Where 2 subjects overlap, such as math and computer programming, then a grave error in one area might call into question a person's expertise in that other subject. But where 2 subjects do not overlap, then errors in one area do not necessarily bring into question the person's expertise in the unrelated subject. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Servetus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Servetus