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    Brian Marick (marick@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 10:11:01 JSTBrian MarickBrian Marick
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    • Heidi Li Feldman
    • Paul Cantrell
    • dimsumthinking

    @dimsumthinking @inthehands @heidilifeldman A lot depends on three people on the Supreme Court deciding, "OK, this has gotten out of hand."

    Maybe the Great Man theory of history is passe¹, but the "failed to rise to the occasion" theory has legs.

    ¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory

    In conversationabout 12 days ago from mstdn.socialpermalink

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      Great man theory
      The great man theory is an approach to the study of history popularised in the 19th century according to which history can be largely explained by the impact of great men, or heroes: highly influential and unique individuals who, due to their natural attributes, such as superior intellect, heroic courage, extraordinary leadership abilities, or divine inspiration, have a decisive historical effect. The theory is primarily attributed to the Scottish essayist, historian, and philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who gave a series of lectures on heroism in 1840, later published as On Heroes, Hero-Worship, & the Heroic in History, in which he states: Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. They were the leaders of men, these great ones; the modellers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do or to attain; all things that we see standing accomplished in the world are properly the outer material result, the practical realisation and embodiment, of Thoughts...
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