/lit/ - Literature

>read tolstoy
>figure out he doesn't believe in great man theory and dislikes Napoleon
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>>10987291
this is partly true i think. partly because most people despise the state of things like contemporary literature and culture in general (although this may not always be unique i believe it is a much larger occurrence in the 20th and 21st centuries). also you have to consider that these giants of history were not around for every decade of the past, there were eras where discoveries and fields were relatively quiet. this is why i think great man theory has to be at least partly true, without these significant individuals to shape our culture and societies things can move rather slowly. it also has to do with hindsight, it is much harder to see the importance of certain movements and inventions as you are living in them, especially if they are not obvious things like revolutions or large wars. possibly also to do with the fact that our society values things like literature and the arts less and less (generally speaking) so a good bunch of talent is being sucked elsewhere like tech fields. dunno, that's what i think anyway but i like to romanticize the past as well, it's pretty fun.

>>10912914
Never, tolstoy is a cuck and the Napoleon is the GOAT.