America’s infatuation with boy geniuses and ‘Great Men’ is ruining us

MicroWave@lemmy.world · 11 days ago

America’s infatuation with boy geniuses and ‘Great Men’ is ruining us

PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 11 days ago

I disagree… stupid people make this shit happen

AlphaOmega@lemmy.world · 11 days ago

What boy genius? What great man/men? The exact opposite is true.

PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 11 days ago

That’s my point. Trump and Elon are not geniuses. Stupid people buy into their grifts

FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 days ago

This is true of a lot of “great men” of history.

Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 days ago

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.

ToadOfHypnosis@lemm.ee · edit-2 2 days ago

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floo@retrolemmy.com · 11 days ago

Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 days ago

Do not call out for your father to save you. He is the one who tied you up and buried your dreams in this tomb. He commands these creatures of the dark! Fear! Self-loathing! Stinkin’ thinkin’! und Dilly-dallying! Free yourself and destroy this temple of failuuuuuure!

imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee · 11 days ago

800XL@lemmy.world · 10 days ago

The key word here is “boy” because mentally and emotionally their growth stopped there.

propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe · edit-2 7 days ago

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SassyRamen@lemmy.world · 10 days ago

I’m waiting on a brain blast of sorts

Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works · 10 days ago

I don’t think this is an American thing. It’s a human thing.