Editing Genius The Transgression/Chapter One: The Cosmos (section)

===The Consensus===
''I Still Remember The Scorn of My Peers''

Two geniuses in every three come from some kind of "scientific" background, and one of the first things they learn is that, after their Breakthrough, they can never return to their former lives. Their mere existence disrupts research, clouds statistics, and makes a mockery of the scientific method. A genius is not a scientist; a genius is a wonder-worker whose miracles are technological in nature. Because of this, the life of a genius is a lonely one. Other Inspired can be allies, but are more often competitors for the same meager resources. Mortals can turn a wonder into a pile of scrap with a moment's handling, and the insightful nature of those mortals geniuses most want to associate with―fellow scientists and thinkers―merely hastens the process of disintegration. Those mortals who have embraced the genius' worldview, her beholden, embrace it with such feverish devotion and faith that, whatever their other merits, they are no more than echo chambers for the genius' thoughts.

So the Inspired walk a lonely road, isolated from their assistants, often conspiring against their fellows, and risking ridicule from the general public, unable to return to their own lives; sustained, it seems, by the burning light of Inspiration alone.