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minus-squarekersploosh@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up151arrow-down2·2 months agoBeware the myth of the self-made man.
minus-squareMajorHavoc@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up78arrow-down1·2 months agoYep! Few things are as dangerous as following someone who doesn’t understand that they got lucky.
minus-squareriodoro1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up26·2 months agoBut the entire society is conditioned to do it. We are shown celebrities before we learn to speak. All around us are those recognizable idiots who rarely have benefited humanity in any meaningful way but have very, very marketable faces. All to make us poor pay for their luxuries.
minus-squareHonytawk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up12·2 months ago"If you wish to make an apple pie a man from scratch, you must first invent the universe. ~Carl Sagan
Beware the myth of the self-made man.
Yep! Few things are as dangerous as following someone who doesn’t understand that they got lucky.
But the entire society is conditioned to do it.
We are shown celebrities before we learn to speak. All around us are those recognizable idiots who rarely have benefited humanity in any meaningful way but have very, very marketable faces. All to make us poor pay for their luxuries.
"If you wish to make
an apple piea man from scratch, you must first invent the universe. ~Carl Sagan