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Like pearls in the ocean, talent is hard to find.   We   hear every day of the latest multi-billion dollar media company developing its own contents for streaming. Include Netflix, Disney, Amazon, Hulu, and more.   There are so many, you can find top-ten lists.    They are spending multiple billions on their ventures, making serials, documentaries, games, and films with large budgets.   Thus, in addition to Hollywood, cable and broadcast television, we have a host of Internet contenders.   It might be considered when only Hollywood and TV were the only sources of entertainment, there was a surprising number of flops and B-movies. Some TV series lasted only a few episodes before cancellation.   Some Hollywood movies never make it to the theaters but are sold off to the networks.   Why???   Talent.   There is just not enough. For the current crop of providers, talent is needed to create huge volumes of entertainment media.   One result is the large number of unscripted talk and

Post-modern Sports. In the beginning, like when I was a kid, sports was completely devoted to sports. I read about who’s doing well, whose not.  I read about trades and how they might affect the team.  I read about the draft and the talents of the draftees.  Rarely did I read about money, except for the superstars.  But now, we see less of this as sports has evolved.  The evolution?  Here's a sketch. Sports teams, talent, prospects, achievements, hopes, potentials, front-runners. Sports money, who’s making the most, minimal salary scales, how much this player can demand, owner’s net worth, league’s rulings on player behavior. Sports personal issues such as domestic abuses, arrests, dress style, diverse opinions, executing contract options. Sports and politics, athlete’s opinions, athlete’s political expressions, athlete’s standing on personal principles, league rulings on politically oriented dress. Only tangential these days is a discussion of the issues

Genius is one of those ephemeral items in the human inventory of gifts together with skills and talents, abilities and intelligence, proficiency and cleverness.  Hard to define, genius is both specific and contextual.  It is not generally abstract.  Genius can reveal itself everywhere, in science, business, politics, war, and literature though often along separate channels.   Some of our greatest philosophers were challenged by the concept and addressed it with notably interesting interpretations. Immanuel Kant in Part I of his Critique of Judgment tells us "Genius is a talent for producing something for which no determinate rule can be given, not a predisposition consisting of a skill for something that can be learned by following some rule or other." In his Twilight of the Idols , Nietzsche writes, "Great men, like great epochs, are explosive material in whom tremendous energy has been accumulated; their prerequisite has always been, historically and