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not so great men
re "great man theory"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great
man
theory
~ great individuals (usually men), with outlier abilities, end up having a big influence on things
ie. "great men" create history
one could instead view it as: history "creates" great men
ie. situations arise in which persons in certain circumstances are given influence (but the individuals themselves are not outliers)
ie. if "X" great man was swapped with "some random person" (but situations kept the same), they would make similar decisions
(of course, some outlier amount is to be expected, one-in-a-thousand, but, not one-in-100-billion as great-man-theory would suggest)
ie. somebody had to be PM of UK in WW2...
2023-03-14
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