Individual brilliance has always been rare. If I booted your ass back 1000 years you'd have seen the same shade of grey in the pig farmers and peasants along with most of the nobles and kings. It turns out that in general the world is a shade of grey.

Hell, looking back at the brilliant individuals, they had many, many grey areas.

>Hell, looking back at the brilliant individuals, they had many, many grey areas.

That is exactly the point. Back then that could exist. Now, we would just cancel them for one of the grey areas.