I’ve made a total of twenty-two different Oddfellows now and I had to go and do research for each one of them. Now here I am putting up my second Tesla post in two days when I haven’t even put up a single story about anyone else. So what gives? Well, plain and simple, Tesla got a raw deal. I mean a really really raw deal. And yes, many of us get raw deals in life but Tesla also happens to have been, I’d argue, one of the ten or twenty most brilliant people to ever walk this planet which makes his raw deal a bigger deal than mine or yours.
It’s not just that he got a raw deal in life though. It’s that, to this day, he’s practically forgotten by popular history. Every other person I’ve made into an Oddfellow has been sainted by history in one way or another. Tesla though, was simply forgotten for the most part (at least until Bowie took up the cause in The Prestige.) His mind was every bit as brilliant as Einstein’s and the reason we don’t know about it is that every idea he had threatened established business models. (See my post about free wireless electricity for the whole world) So you’d think at the very least anti-corporate hipsters could start plastering his face all over their T-Shirts. Hell, if no one else does it, I will.
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