Obsolete

The Hypothetical World State has decreed that artistic genius is to be made illegal, on the basis of its being "undemocratic." "These people are an anachronism of an ignorant, superstitious age," said a spokesman. "We have no need for them.
"Hopefully, however, there will be no need to implement the law, as ideally the social environment will strangle at birth any inclination towards the desert areas of the mind from which the genius emerges, and also, of course, we would like to think that the populace will be so dumbed down as to be wholly unable to recognise the existence of the works of genius, even if they should exist."