MicroWave to politics English · 8 months agoAmerica’s infatuation with boy geniuses and ‘Great Men’ is ruining uswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square10linkfedilinkarrow-up1212arrow-down14 cross-posted to: europeanfederalists[email protected]
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minus-squarePattyMcBlinkfedilinkarrow-up39arrow-down2·8 months agoI disagree… stupid people make this shit happen
minus-squareAlphaOmegalinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·8 months agoWhat boy genius? What great man/men? The exact opposite is true.
minus-squarePattyMcBlinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down1·8 months agoThat’s my point. Trump and Elon are not geniuses. Stupid people buy into their grifts
minus-squareFartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·8 months agoThis is true of a lot of “great men” of history.
minus-squareSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·8 months 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.
I disagree… stupid people make this shit happen
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.