Is the great man theory valid?

Is the great man theory valid?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    maybe, but there are too many Raskolnikov types roaming around thinking they're great men

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes. They're referred to in Psychology today as megalomaniacx.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No only the John Green theory

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      What's that?

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Typical leaders are both born and made. If you have an overwhelming physical strength it still requires the right culture to flourish.

    Some leaders can be mostly made though, if they have enough determination and willpower to succeed all odds.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't think it can be separated, the "great man" is himself a part of the social and historical ecology that produced him.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It is valid to say that certain individuals happened to impact history considerably. But most of the time, they were not irreplaceable. While a non-Hitlerist germany likely would not be as race-obsessed, i am sure that another similar authoritarian movement would eventually take advantage of the unrest.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes, just like the onions man theory.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Who were the onions men in history?

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    obviously

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No. Isaac Newton, often referred to as a candidate for the *greatest* man, was smart enough to proclaim that he simply stood on the shoulders of giants. We are the accumulation of that which came before us, there's no magical mythical great man that suddenly does everything better than everyone else. He just knows shit that the men before him learned the hard way.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >was smart enough to proclaim he simply stood on the shoulders of other great men
      WOW

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They're products of their worlds, but also individuals with their own idiosyncrasies. Great Man theory is garbage, but let's not throw everything out. The fact is, the EIC's domination of India wasn't a foregone conclusion, Carthage could've conquered Rome, and China's politics could've turned out MUCH differently. It's just the nature of concentrated power.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Donald Trump proves it

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yes.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    retroactively refuted by Tolstoy

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If Queen Victoria was King Victor the personal union with Hannover never dissolves and world history changes. There are many things in history that are the result of one person.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    There are many great men in the past that was buried under the rubble of "convenient narratives"

    >Friedrich von der Trenck
    >the "Prussian sharpe"
    >his memoirs read like Alexander Dumas but with more T

    >by the time Trenck was 18 he already won 4 sword duels, enlisted in the cavalry, battled on the front lines in a couple massive ball-crushing conflicts, and became lieutenant Frederick the Great's personal bodyguards

    >Unfortunately for Friedrich, they find out that his Austrian cousin Baron Franz von Trenck nearly captured the Old Fritz. Rumors spread that Friedrich was an Austrian spy and after it was learned that he was Baron Trenck's sole heir, the rumors were impossible to silence so they imprisoned Friedrich

    >Trenck tried to escape from the fortress of Glatz, until one of his fellow inmates ratted him out. (Trenck would later find this guy, publicly humiliate him in front of thousands of onlookers, and then kill his ass in a duel)

    >Trenck gets relocated to an unescapable prison cell in the top of a large stone tower, he snuck in a small metal instrument, filed down the bars of his cell window, lowered himself down with a rope he made by tying some leather straps together, and made a break for it. Gets caught again.

    >New escape attempt. Trenck took a more direct approach. When a guard came to move him between cells, Trenck dry-gulched the dude in the face, grabbed the sword off of his sword belt, and proceeded to cut his way through the prison block with the pointy end of the weapon.

    >The guards came rushing to stop him, – surrounded by 6 men, he wounded all of them, made his way out of the cell block like Han Solo escaping the Death Star, leapt from the rampart down to a courtyard nearly twenty feet below.

    >Trenck got away, but he hadn't heard the last of Frederick the Great. The pissed-off Prussian King continually sent assassins and agents to kill/capture the Baron, and he spent the next 7 years fighting off a number of attempts on his life.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    yes the consequences of Yui alone will echo for a thosand years

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