MicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoAmerica’s infatuation with boy geniuses and ‘Great Men’ is ruining uswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1211arrow-down14
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minus-squarePattyMcB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up39arrow-down2·6 days agoI disagree… stupid people make this shit happen
minus-squareAlphaOmega@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·6 days agoWhat boy genius? What great man/men? The exact opposite is true.
minus-squarePattyMcB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down1·6 days agoThat’s my point. Trump and Elon are not geniuses. Stupid people buy into their grifts
minus-squareFartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·6 days agoThis is true of a lot of “great men” of history.
minus-squareSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·6 days 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.