I’d disagree, genius doesn’t necessarily have a moral dimension to it. A lot of things can be the product of genius, but the application is what can be measured through whether it is commendable or insidious. If there is one thing I can say the US really does better than any country on earth, it is propaganda, and the methodology and apparatus that was developed to propagate and instill these beliefs took a lot of research and “geniuses” to get it to where it is. Now of course the way they used this talent to further destabilizing propaganda, lies, and capitalist realism is of course morally reprehensible and should be condemned, but their effectiveness cannot be denied. Much like how the Manhattan Project was a product of brilliant physics and engineering, but the weapons it created were used for some of the cruelest killings in history.
I feel like every couple of weeks someone ends up in your current headspace and posts something like this. I wonder how many average US Americans are thinking the same. Probably not so many, considering the sampling bias of Lemmygrad, but it’s a little humorous to imagine some years down the line Cuba and China having a substantial population of recently arrived disillusioned US migrant communities, a sort of reverse Gusano effect.