The Humanity s Greatest Intellectual Wasteland

Anton Chekhov once said about people that 99 out of 100 have not brains at all. That's why so important  building railways: they allow to vast numbers of population  to travel and begin to grow wiser—or at least realize how limited their intellectual capabilities, lifestyles, and worldviews truly are.

More than a century after Chekhov’s death, Alexander Nevzorov—in his book "The Origins of Fascism and Genius"—described Chekhov’s assessment as overly optimistic.
In reality, he told, only one person per 20 million is capable for rational action.
Throughout human history, there have been no more than 3,000 such individuals in total. Today, among the Earth’s 7 billion inhabitants, there are roughly 300 people who actually possess brains.  All others are just merely a "space-filler", who pollute land and stink air without any purpose, in their deeds, actions, and thoughts who differs very little from the primitive creatures of the Pleistocene era.

Thus, if we agreed  to this  commentator, we would find only three people in Central Asia today capable of soberly assessing the local and global situations and  who can offer something truly worthwhile to the region and the world.

Throughout our history, there have been no more than 30 such individuals in total. They likely include Kujula Kadphises, Al-Farabi, Al-Khwarizmi, Khayyam, Mahmud Kashgari, Rumi, Ulugbeg, Biruni, Gasprinsky, Kubat-biy, Ataturk, and Auezov.
Nevzorov cites Democritus, Pericles, Newton, Huygens, Einstein, Planck, Tesla, and Bohr. This category could likely also include Gandhi, Churchill, and Landau; writers such as Orwell and Shaw; dissidents like Bukovsky, Sakharov, and Dzhemilev; and politicians such as Lee Kuan Yew and Havel.
No prophet or founder of a religion appears on this list, nor do the great creators of the Renaissance—figures who merely compounded and cemented the tragic errors and delusions of humanity that had followed in the wake of the prophets.
No great Russian writer—neither Tolstoy, Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Gogol, nor Turgenev—is included, nor are the giants of German philosophical thought. Yet the author of "War and Peace" might well have been accorded such an honor; after all, he was not only wrote the great novels but also campaigned against the onset of World War I in his later years.

Soviet writers fared even worse: becouse they served a regime, an ideology, and an era that were not only  incapable of rational action but surpassing in their stupidity, cruelty, and crimes (physical, spiritual, and intellectual) all other barbaric regimes in human history combined.

Humanity will not become any wiser in the near future, Nevzorov  convinced; however, it is important that the number of people who recognize and understand the thoughts and actions of those who capable of creating something truly new and worthwhile should gradually increase.
It would be a major step forward if people began to value and respect such few individuals around them—both in past and present. Rate of wiseness of every nation and society defined by number of such  persons who capable respect own representatives who possess true reason. Whereas the majority of people and nations blindly follow—like cattle to the slaughter—outright scoundrels, fanatics, demagogues, and criminals who have seized power.