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
arrow-up1204arrow-down1external-linkAmerica’s infatuation with boy geniuses and ‘Great Men’ is ruining uswww.theguardian.comMicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square11linkfedilink
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.
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.