It sounds like you wish there were a consensus around how much shit consensus is. Thatās weird.
OK, youāve named three people in the history of science. Letās go ahead and round up to say there have been 1000 Einsteins.
Compare that with the roughly 10 million scientists operating today, and you can see that most of science is not the lone genius shifting paradigms.
Moreover, as Peter points out, even the Einsteins werenāt operating in a vacuum. There was already a scientific consensus at the time of Einstein that luminiferous ether theory didnāt match observation. Einsteinās contribution was within that consensus, providing a theoretical model for the consensus about what weād observed, and drawing on theoretical advances provided by others.
K: ummmm, listed is three winners of the Nobel prize for literature,
all of them Russians during the communist years,
Boris Pasternak, Mikhail Sholokhov and of course Aleksandr Solzhenitsynā¦
I donāt think Pasternak was a socialist and he was born in 1890 and seems to have been pretty cranky in conforming to what communist, not socialist leaders wanted. Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism, he was raised in the Orthodox Church by his mother, his familyās land was taken and made communal, and he had to hide his fatherās wealthy past. Mikhail Sholokhov sort of works, though again, here we are dealing with communism, not socialism, and large scale communism
I suppose if one is arguing that som geniuses might be created by communism if they hate and rebel against it, the other two might be good examples.
Better examples might come from, say, Scandanavia.
Thanks, but if you consider Scandanavia capitalist, with free health care, free education, free dental for kids, an extensive social support system, extremely high taxes rates capitalist,
then most of US liberals you classify as socialists are extreme capitalists by comparison.
Obviously Iām not the most perceptive poster since Iām only now discovering this thread
But I vote Carleas because heās the most likely to concede points in earnest aspiration for truth and I think his respectful style of interaction with members should be a model for us all.
If weāre talking ferocious, that would be Urwrongx1000ā¦ Iām not saying heās always right, but he would be the most ferocious in defence of his argument.
I will post an update commentary on the current positions thus farā¦ exciting, I know
He relents and will stop replying after a while, but Prism wonāt give up. Heāll argue about what it means to be a Christian until Christ returns lol
Iām guessing, that like most things, it may have itās pros and itās consā¦ depending on the circumstance at hand. One-dimensionality probably pigeon-holes, whereas a multi-faceted character has more to play withā¦ probably.