The Genius Rights Manifesto
By: Stephan Shahinian
Tags: Genius, Civilization, Human Rights

Throughout history, the process of human civilization has been to continually include different sociological or biological minorities into the collective, majority discourse, with the goal to understand the life experience of a specific minority and to mitigate any sources of human rights violations towards that minority.

Examples of this civilization process were racial minority rights movements, gay rights movements, women’s rights movements and several other movements that included different minorities into the collective discourse.

An important step in this process was to openly discuss the life experience of different minority members to understand to what extent the majority structure is discriminatory towards a specific minority and its members, or if there are any isolated but consistent sources of discrimination.

One minority that has been so far absent from this examination process are neurological outliers (colloquially referred to as geniuses).

Most neurological outliers face significant discrimination all throughout their lives. And this prolonged discrimination gives rise to psychological scars and sometimes even more severe outcomes.

Therefore, an important step would be to discuss the life experience of neurological outliers (colloquially referred to as geniuses) to understand to what extent their rights are violated.

A critical aspect to emphasize is that currently society negates that geniuses are real and biologically determined.

Yet it is scientifically easily provable that geniuses have a biologically different brain!

(Another article discusses in detail the biological roots of neurological outliers)

Negating that geniuses are real and biologically determined is analogous to negating that gays are real and biologically determined, or negating that a specific racial minority is real and biologically determined.

This is a dangerous and slippery slope. Because the moment you negate the existence of a minority, you take away the possibility of discussing and protecting the rights of that minority.

Someone like Einstein or Mozart or Elon Musk are born neurological outliers and are noticeably different from a very young age (age 3 or 4). They are real and their differentness is biological. Their brain processes reality differently.

Yet we all have heard the commonly spread statement that “Everyone is a genius, but if you tell a fish to climb a tree bla bla bla….”

That is not true.

Not everyone is a genius. Geniuses are real and very rare.

When you are a genius you are a neurological exception and you are born that way. And this is obvious from a very young age.

Because society is uncomfortable discussing the existence of this specific minority, society continuously violates the rights of the minority members.

If one reads the life stories of most geniuses throughout history, their lives are full of discrimination and attacks. This discrimination was true for Einstein, Mozart, Jobs, Musk, Turing, Wittgenstein you name it.

And there is significant survivorship bias in this list, because many neurological outliers face so much discrimination, that they succumb under that pressure at a young age and we do not hear about them.

Therefore, society needs to discuss and protect genius rights!

The question is not to discuss who is a genius, or who is not a genius. But it is important to comfortably and openly discuss what the world is like for a genius, and what it is like growing up or going through life as a genius.

This is something that no one ever talks about publicly and openly.

But it is the only way to mitigate any sources of discrimination towards that minority.