MicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoAmerica’s infatuation with boy geniuses and ‘Great Men’ is ruining uswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1211arrow-down14
arrow-up1207arrow-down1external-linkAmerica’s infatuation with boy geniuses and ‘Great Men’ is ruining uswww.theguardian.comMicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squarePattyMcB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23arrow-down1·1 month agoThat’s my point. Trump and Elon are not geniuses. Stupid people buy into their grifts
minus-squareFartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·1 month agoThis is true of a lot of “great men” of history.
minus-squareSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 month 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.