Probably, a good many people believe that there's a connection between genius and insanity. But there isn't one. The evidence shows that high intelligence and insanity are not related, and insanity does not have a higher incidence in mentally gifted families than in the general population. Havelock Ellis, Dr. Weston A. Price, and Professor Edward M. East, each investigated the question of whether such a correlation might exist, and their conclusions were negative.
The idea that such a connection might exist appears to have originated with television, specifically with the scripts and in the acting ability of persons hired to provide social propaganda in the disguise of entertainment.
When weighing the media for irresponsible behavior or for dangerous tendencies, we must admit that there are a certain number of liars on the Internet. But their lies, mostly, are set down in writing, where people can read them at their own speed and think about what the words mean. Television's lies are delivered must faster, in speech, in body language, and in contrived (fictitious) social contexts.
And let's not forget the recorded laughter, groans, and indignant protest noises that can be heard at politically significant moments, when the producers of the show want to be sure that you understand how you should think about the events being portrayed. And why do you need a music track to inform you either "here are the bad guys plotting their evil deeds" or "here are the heroes, rising up in righteous wrath to fight back"? Are you too stupid to see the moral difference between what bad guys do and what heroes do? Is it not "real" to you, unless you have the music to judge by?
Beyond that, are you sure that the guy, whose words or ideas were "groaned at" with recorded opprobrium, is really wrong? Maybe he's right, and the Jews just want to trick you.
The TV watcher, intent on the "story," can't analyze these deceptions because they are delivered too rapidly, and consequently his subconscious mind accepts them uncritically as "truth" or at least as "reasonable possibilities." Nearly all TV entertainment is social propaganda designed by Jews to have a calculated effect on viewers. Even the "evening news" is conducted this way, but in particular the subliminal content is present in movies and in sit-coms.
And not all presentations are equal in their methods. Consider Star Wars for a moment. You never really believe, while you are watching Luke Skywalker battle Darth Vader, that these characters are a part of your own world. In order to enjoy the movie, you must pretend for a while that YOU are a part of THEIR world.
On the other hand, consider Rosanne. The scriptwriting for this sit-com and the acting of its cast very carefully works up the illusion that Rosanne Connor, her family, her queer boss, and the guys down at the local tavern, are all real people and that everything on the programme is part of YOUR world, and that the way things happen in this show is the way things happen in real life.
Nothing of the kind! Rosanne Connor does not exist in the real world. The social situations and the relationships portrayed in the sit-com are exactly as fictional as the spaceships in Star Wars. The appearance of plausibility, that artful similarity to the "real world" in Rosanne is an illusion intended to get social ideas into the heads of American TV-watchers like a shoehorn helps a foot to slide into a tight shoe.
That's how the popular notion about "mad scientists" and "eccentric geniuses" got started. It never had any basis in fact. The association in the public mind between insanity and mental giftedness was a trick played on all of us by the television, to make it appear that intelligence has a down-side that it doesn't have, and thus to shore up the pride of the intellectually inferior. Tricks such as this are a bit like someone teaching your kid to be a smart-ass (actually, a juvenile communist, though he might not know it) so that he thinks his teenage knowledge to be more than equal to the wisdom that his father has accumulated, diligently and often painfully, over forty years.
In other words, the idea behind deceptively linking genius with insanity was to persuade the voting rabble that their nation would be poorly run if intellectual standards were imposed on the right to vote or on the eligibility to hold public office. Once you know, also, that the Jewish media were the originators of this linkage, you can figure out the rest.
I could have written this page as easily around the racial equality myth that television created and continues to popularize. But I wanted to use a different Jewish myth for this page, just to have a change of pace.