He was a pre-socratic philosopher, and is the first modern western philosopher. He was phoenician, ionian greek, and also is the creator of modern western mathematics, as well as the concept of moving beyond mere mythology. I mean seriously, he literally made the first theorem, Thales' theorem.

Why isn't he taught more in school? How is fucking socrates getting all the limelight, even being mistaken for being the first philosopher? You mention socrates, and everyone knows what you're talking about, but you mention thales, and nobody knows who that is unless they work in a field explicitly related to him.

He's arguably the man who started pretty much all of intellectual thought, having made math what it is now, and starting western philosophy and the idea of science as a whole. All of these would eventually replace pretty much all of academics and become the beating heart of science, all being traced back to him.…