MicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoAmerica’s infatuation with boy geniuses and ‘Great Men’ is ruining uswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up1208arrow-down14
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minus-squareAlphaOmega@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 year agoWhat boy genius? What great man/men? The exact opposite is true.
minus-squarePattyMcB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down1·1 year agoThat’s my point. Trump and Elon are not geniuses. Stupid people buy into their grifts
minus-squareFartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·1 year agoThis is true of a lot of “great men” of history.
minus-squareSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoEven Jean-Paul Sartre, arguably a great philosopher with valuable anti-Nazi ideas, kind of treated Simone de Beauvoir like shit. Nobody is perfect. We all have our demons we wrestle with.
What boy genius? What great man/men? The exact opposite is true.
That’s my point. Trump and Elon are not geniuses. Stupid people buy into their grifts
This is true of a lot of “great men” of history.
Even Jean-Paul Sartre, arguably a great philosopher with valuable anti-Nazi ideas, kind of treated Simone de Beauvoir like shit.
Nobody is perfect. We all have our demons we wrestle with.