Any baby boomer original thinker you know (or could be some one younger)?

Hey Taboo --- do you mean know personally, or by reading and reputation?

How about Cornel West? (born 1953, philosopher and social scientist formerly of Harvard and now Princeton)

Or Kwame Anthony Appiah? (born 1954, philosophy professor at Princeton)

Or Steven Pinker (born 1954, cognitive science professor at Harvard)

and many more... it's a big world and there are a lot of accomplished, original people out there in every generation

I'm 35 and Mozart died at my age...

Hey Taboo --- do you mean know personally, or by reading and reputation?

Thanx Aedes and every one

Yea I have heard and read( some of them)about the old dead guys.I was asking if there is some one fresh and worth reading.Preferably some one who is not academician/politician/activist.

It ain't like he was playing rock and roll...He probably died of boredom...

I'm 35 and Mozart died at my age...

lol. I love Amadeus, the movie. I also like his music.

I attribute that to the notion that bright stars live shorter lives.

That nice romantic notion is all soap and no water... It is possible that Plato was no older when cast into slavery and sold into freedom...He might have taken a better lesson from the affair...Time does not help any of us, but when we slow down, many of the lessons of youth begin to make sense...If we could not learn when young because everything taught from the past was out of sync with us, then as we slow down the past catches up with us... I am certain that all the testosterone interfers with conceptualization.... But this fact, along with slowing down accounts for older philosophers... As Socrates and his host agreed, youth is like madness... Occasionally people create out of madness...Look a Baudelaire, and Nietzsche, or Dostoyevsky...Usually the mad are just great destroyers...