seannelson

To be a "poet" (as best I know to say it) is to cease to be one individual or one of the many, to be a water drop rising from a midnight back-alley pool, to be greedily ambitious

Well, Epicurus is a rather misunderstood thinker, and one whose ideas I feel are extremely relevant to this age. He was not an advocate of immoderate pleasure. Perhaps above all, he recommended thoughtful retreat from the mainstream world. This was my reference: A person with Einstein's abilities could have made a quiet, productive way in the world without sharing dangerous ideas with a society unready to peacably mangage them.